Factors Associated With Efficacy of Cognitive Behavior Therapy vs Education for Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Among patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), it would be helpful to identify those most likely to respond to specific treatments, yet few factors have been identified that reliably predict positive outcome. We sought to identify pretreatment baseline characteristics that associate with gastrointestinal symptom improvement in patients who received empirically validated regimens of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) or IBS education.

METHODS: We analyzed data from the IBS Outcome Study, in which 436 patients with IBS (average age, 41 years; 80%, female) were randomly assigned to groups that received 4 or 10 sessions of cognitive behavior therapy or education over 10 weeks. Baseline data were collected from all participants on sociodemographic and clinical features and comorbidities. Interaction analyses used a modified linear probability model with Huber-White robust estimators to identify baseline factors that moderated as a function of treatment condition GI symptom improvement based on the IBS-version of the Clinical Global Impressions-Improvement Scale.

RESULTS: Whether the primary outcome of IBS symptom improvement was rated by patients or physician assessors blind to treatment 2 weeks after it ended, higher percentages of patients had symptom improvement after CBT compared with EDU among those with low levels of trait anxiety (71.3% vs 34.9%; P < .05) or anxiety sensitivity (71.7% vs 38.6%; P < .05) and for those with baseline typical levels of trait anxiety (66.0% vs 47.1%; P < .05) or anxiety sensitivity (66.3% vs 47.1%; P < .05). For patients with high trait anxiety or anxiety sensitivity, the difference in percentage of responders to CBT vs EDU was non-significant for trait anxiety (60.6% vs 59.2%) and anxiety sensitivity (60.9% vs 55.9%). If patients scored at or below 22 on the Trait Anxiety Inventory, CBT had a statistically significant advantage over EDU. If patients scored at or below 29 on the Anxiety Sensitivity Inventory, there was a statistically significant advantage for CBT vs EDU.

CONCLUSIONS: In analyses of outcomes of patients with treatment-refractory IBS, baseline levels of trait anxiety and anxiety sensitivity (fear of arousal symptoms) were associated with improved gastrointestinal symptoms following CBT compared to IBS education. These findings and approaches might be used to optimize selection of treatment for patients with IBS.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association - 17(2019), 8 vom: 26. Juli, Seite 1500-1508.e3

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lackner, Jeffrey M [VerfasserIn]
Jaccard, James [VerfasserIn]
IBS Outcome Study Research Group [VerfasserIn]
Firth, Rebecca [Sonstige Person]
Krasner, Susan [Sonstige Person]
Hamilton, Frank [Sonstige Person]
Keefer, Laurie [Sonstige Person]
Ma, Chang-Xing [Sonstige Person]
Radziwon, Chris [Sonstige Person]
Sitrin, Michael [Sonstige Person]
Brenner, Darren [Sonstige Person]
Gudleski, Gregory [Sonstige Person]
Carosella, Ann Marie [Sonstige Person]
Katz, Len [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Anxiety
Journal Article
Moderation
Multicenter Study
Personalized Medicine
Precision Medicine
Predictors
Psychological Treatments
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Treatment Outcome
Treatment Selection

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Date Completed 21.10.2020

Date Revised 11.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cgh.2018.10.033

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM292415796