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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages 950-957Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e328354f41f
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functional; gastrointestinal disorders; health-related quality of life; patient education
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- Swedish Medical Research Council [13409]
- Health & Medical Care Committee of the Region Vastra Gotaland [VGFOUREG-2002]
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Goteborg
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Objective Structured multidisciplinary patient group education has positive effects on symptoms, health-related quality of life, and disease-related knowledge in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), but few studies comparing different forms of educational interventions are available. Our aim was to compare the effects of long multidisciplinary group education with a short nurse-based group education with regard to symptoms, knowledge, quality of life, and satisfaction with the intervention in IBS patients. Methods Patients with IBS according to the Rome II criteria were randomized to either short nurse-based or a long multidisciplinary-based education. The effects were evaluated by self-administered questionnaires at 3, 6, and 12 months after baseline, and compared between the groups. Results No differences in effects were detected in the between-group comparisons at any of the follow-up assessments. However, positive effects on symptoms, knowledge, quality of life, and satisfaction with the intervention were found in both the short and the long version. Conclusion A short, nurse-based educational intervention seems to be as efficacious as a longer multidisciplinary version. In both groups, positive effects on patients' wellbeing were found to a similar extent. This is an important finding that, from a cost-effective perspective, could contribute toward an optimized management of patients with IBS. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 24:950-957 (c) 2012 Wolters Kluwer Health vertical bar Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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