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Hypnotherapy for IBD patients with IBS-like symptoms.

Conditions
Inflammatory bowel diseaseInflammatoire darmziekteIrritable bowel syndromePrikkelbare darmsyndroom
Registration Number
NL-OMON22531
Lead Sponsor
Academic Medical Center (AMC)
Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
80
Inclusion Criteria

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease and IBS-like symptoms, age >11 years will be recruited. Patients have to be in remission of their inflammatory bowel disease as defined as no signs of inflammatory bowel disease, low inflammatory markers in laboratory tests and no disease activity on imaging studies of the intestine. IBS-like symptoms are defined as abdominal pain for at least two months, fulfilling the pediatric or adult Rome-III criteria for IBS.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are a concomitant organic gastrointestinal disease, stenotic IBD, complicated IBD that had required surgery more than once, another coexisiting complicated disease (e.g. malignancy, unstable cardiovascular, hepatic or renal disease), treatment by another health care professional for abdominal symptoms, mental retardation, insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language and previous hypnotherapy treatment.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The number of patients with >50% reduction in IBS-SSS pain score.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Secondary outcomes are the effects of therapy on total IBS-SSS score, adequate relief, health related quality of life, IBD disease activity, health utility index, depression, anxiety, somatisation, abdominal pain related cognitions, absence of school or work, use of health care resources and additional costs, use of IBD medication, colonic sensitivity to distension, fecal protease activitiy and microbiota and the ability of patient's fecal supernatant to induce colonic hypersensitivity to distension in rats by colonic infusion.
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