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Cognitive behavioural therapy for IBS: results or treatment as usual?

Telephone or web-based psychotherapy has been suggested to be as effective as face-to-face psychotherapy while lowering access restrictions and improving patient acceptability. A large new study in patients with IBS shows the superiority of such an approach in comparison with treatment as usual.

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Fig. 1: Control groups in psychotherapy trials.

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Enck, P., Lackner, J.M. Cognitive behavioural therapy for IBS: results or treatment as usual?. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 16, 515–516 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-019-0174-2

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