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ReviewCurrent gastroenterology reports2020

Hypnosis and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for the Management of Gastrointestinal Disorders.

Olafur S Palsson, Sarah Ballou

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Review in Current gastroenterology reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Psychological interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  6. Enteric nervous system as a therapeutic target in gastrointestinal disorders.World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025
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  17. Psychological comorbidity in gastrointestinal diseases: Update on the brain-gut-microbiome axis.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Olafur S PalssonDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, P.O. Box 9126, Chapel Hill, NC, 27515, USA. opalsson@med.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4480-3708
Sarah BallouDepartment of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo review the nature, current evidence of efficacy, recent developments, and future prospects for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and gut-directed hypnotherapy, the two best established psychological interventions for managing gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. RECENT

findingsNew large randomized controlled trials are showing that cost-effective therapy delivery formats (telephone-based, Internet-based, fewer therapist sessions, or group therapy) are effective for treating GI disorders. CBT and hypnotherapy can produce substantial improvement in the digestive tract symptoms, psychological well-being, and quality of life of GI patients. However, they have long been hampered by limited scalability and significant cost, and only been sufficiently tested for a few GI health problems. Through adoption of more cost-effective therapy formats and teletherapy, and by expanding the scope of efficacy testing to additional GI treatment targets, these interventions have the potential to become widely available options for improving clinical outcomes for patients with hard-to-treat GI disorders.

Indexed as

Cognitive Behavioral TherapyHypnosisCentral Nervous SystemDyspepsiaEnteric Nervous SystemGastrointestinal DiseasesHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesIrritable Bowel SyndromeQuality of LifeStress, PsychologicalTelemedicineBrain-gut axisCognitive behavioral therapyFunctional gastrointestinal disordersHypnotherapy

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PMID32495233
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