Use of Expressive Writing in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether disease-related expressive writing is effective in the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

Clinical Trial Description

Expressive writing involves writing about traumatic, stressful or emotional events. Expressive writing, for as little as 3-5 sessions of 20 minutes, has been found to improve both physical and psychological health based on health outcome measures such as number of doctor's visits and hospital days, blood pressure control, lung and immune function, and pain. Given its simplicity, and obvious advantages in terms of cost efficiency, expressive writing appears to have great potential as a therapeutic tool or as a means of self-help, either alone or as an adjunct to traditional therapies. This modality has not been studied in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common gastrointestinal condition, which is lacking well-defined etiology or treatments and is best understood in a biopsychosocial context. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT01192672
Study type	Interventional
Source	Boston University
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Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	September 2008
Completion date	November 2010

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