The WISH 2.0 Intervention for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
Positive psychology interventions tailored to irritable bowel syndrome may offer a scalable behavioral approach to improve symptoms.
BACKGROUND: There is a critical need for acceptable, scalable, and mechanistically targeted behavioral health interventions for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), known as brain-gut behavior therapies (BGBTs). Although positive psychology (PP) interventions, which focus on the cultivation of positive psychological well-being, have been linked to improved health outcomes across diverse medical populations, they have not yet bee...
What the study was
- Study design
- Randomized study
- Sample size
- 20
- Category
- Genomics/Precision Medicine
- Maturity
- Exploratory
- Journal
- JMIR research protocols
Why it surfaced
Score 6/10 [PROMISING_PRELIMINARY]: Randomized study (Journal Article) matched 'Sentinel'. Components — novelty:2/3, relevance:1/3, design:2/2, population:1/2. Confidence: high. Conservative scoring applied per v1.3 rubric.
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