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Therapeutic mechanisms of a mindfulness-based treatment for IBS: effects on visceral sensitivity, catastrophizing, and affective processing of pain sensations 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Garland, E. L.,Gaylord, S. A.,Palsson, O.,Faurot, K.,Douglas Mann, J.,Whitehead, W. E.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Springer Science + Business Media
  • 출판년도2012
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Journal of behavioral medicine
  • 발행사항Vol.35No.6[2012]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0160-7715
  • 소개/요약Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent functional disorder characterized by abdominal pain and hypervigilance to gastrointestinal sensations. We hypothesized that mindfulness training (MT), which promotes nonreactive awareness of emotional and sensory experience, may target underlying mechanisms of IBS including affective pain processing and catastrophic appraisals of gastrointestinal sensations. Seventy five female IBS patients were randomly assigned to participate in either 8 weeks of MT or a social support group. A theoretically grounded, multivariate path model tested therapeutic mediators of the effect of MT on IBS severity and quality of life. Results suggest that MT exerts significant therapeutic effects on IBS symptoms by promoting nonreactivity to gut-focused anxiety and catastrophic appraisals of the significance of abdominal sensations coupled with a refocusing of attention onto interoceptive data with less emotional interference. Hence, MT appears to target and ameliorate the underlying pathogenic mechanisms of IBS.