Trial reportThe Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology2020
The specialized educational and psychological counseling in inflammatory bowel disease patients - a target or a challenge?
Trial report in The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychological interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Do interventions for mood improve inflammatory biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease?: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EBioMedicine · 2024Pooled it
- Health Literacy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review of Health Outcomes, Predictors and Barriers.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The Interaction between Stress and Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Pediatric and Adult Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Quality of Life of IBD Patients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Observational
- Counseling in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Question, an Observation, and a Proposal.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Psychological stress in inflammatory bowel disease: Psychoneuroimmunological insights into bidirectional gut-brain communications.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
BACKGROUND/
aimsStress, in its various forms, plays an important role in the development and evolution of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For patients with IBD, the evidence related to the effects of various types of psychological therapies remains inconclusive. This study aimed to evaluate whether cognitive behavioral therapy, in combination with educational counseling, influenced disease activity and quality of life (QoL) among patients with IBD. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe conducted a randomized controlled trial with 60 patients diagnosed with IBD. All patients completed the IBD questionnaire-32 (IBDQ-32) and the Big Five Inventory. Group A (experimental group) received specialized educational and psychological counseling (SEPC), and group B (control group) was treated according to the current medical practice. All patients were reassessed after 12 months.
resultsAfter the SEPC, there was no improvement in disease activity as estimated by fecal calprotectin levels. However, the QoL of patients in group A was significantly improved. The highest mean difference between the initial and final IBDQ scores was found among patients whose main personality trait was openness to experience (48.58±28.80), and the lowest mean difference between these 2 scores was found among patients whose main personality trait was closedness to experience (3.33±2.97, p=0.009).
conclusionAlthough there was no improvement in disease activity after the SEPC, this therapy improved patients' QoL in terms of both emotional and social functions, especially among patients whose dominant personality trait was openness to experience or neuroticism.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.