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Virtual Group Therapy for IBD Patients With Anxiety and Depression

28 de agosto de 2026 atualizado por: University of Chicago

Group-based Virtual Psychotherapy Intervention for Anxiety and Depression in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

This study is being done to better understand the complex relationship between mental health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), with a particular focus on symptoms of depression and anxiety. While depression and anxiety have traditionally been viewed as reactions to the burden of living with IBD, new research suggests that the biological factors involved in IBD may also contribute directly to these mental health challenges. This study aims to evaluate whether a virtual, group-based psychological treatment is both acceptable and feasible for patients with IBD who experience significant depression and/or anxiety. Researchers will also evaluate participants' depression, generalized anxiety, and associated psychosocial factors (poor sleep quality, GI-specific anxiety, fatigue) before, during, and after treatment. Finally, researchers will evaluate disease severity as it relates to mental health status by comparing it to symptoms, biochemical disease and tryptophan metabolites from blood and stool samples.

People who agree to join the study will be asked to attend three in-person visits and 10 virtual group psychotherapy sessions over 11 weeks. Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires, give stool and blood samples, and the research team will collect information about participations from medical records.

Visão geral do estudo

Status

Ainda não está recrutando

Condições

Intervenção / Tratamento

Tipo de estudo

Intervencional

Inscrição (Estimado)

16

Estágio

  • Não aplicável

Contactos e Locais

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Contato de estudo

Locais de estudo

    • Illinois
      • Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 60637
        • University of Chicago
        • Contato:
        • Investigador principal:
          • Alyse Bedell, PhD, CST

Critérios de participação

Os pesquisadores procuram pessoas que se encaixem em uma determinada descrição, chamada de critérios de elegibilidade. Alguns exemplos desses critérios são a condição geral de saúde de uma pessoa ou tratamentos anteriores.

Critérios de elegibilidade

Idades elegíveis para estudo

  • Adulto
  • Adulto mais velho

Aceita Voluntários Saudáveis

Não

Descrição

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18+ years of age
  • Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis)
  • English-speaking
  • Patients with score ≥10 on General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) questionnaire (considered moderate or higher anxiety symptoms) or ≥10 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) (considered moderate or higher depressive symptoms) within 3 months
  • Able to provide written consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unwilling and/or unable to participate
  • Non-English speakers
  • Unable to understand the instructions or to consent to participation in the study, including patients with a diagnosed cognitive impairment

Plano de estudo

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Como o estudo é projetado?

Detalhes do projeto

  • Finalidade Principal: Tratamento
  • Alocação: N / D
  • Modelo Intervencional: Atribuição de grupo único
  • Mascaramento: Nenhum (rótulo aberto)

Armas e Intervenções

Grupo de Participantes / Braço
Intervenção / Tratamento
Experimental: Patients with IBD who self-report moderate or higher anxiety or depression symptoms
Participants will engage in a course of ten, 120-minute sessions of group psychotherapy. The intervention will be guided by the Mind Over Mood treatment manual. Mind Over Mood is a manual that is published and commonly used to treat depression and anxiety as guided by a therapist and for self-help. For this study, the manual will be adapted for patients with IBD. Session content will include interventions such as psychoeducation on the brain-gut connection and the CBT model, behavioral activation and activity scheduling, cognitive monitoring and restructuring, development of behavioral experiments to test underlying assumptions, building acceptance and gratitude, and maintenance of gains and relapse prevention.

O que o estudo está medindo?

Medidas de resultados primários

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Determine acceptability of a 10-session, group-based, virtual treatment guided by the Mind over Mood treatment manual in patients with IBD with clinically significant depression and/or anxiety
Prazo: End of intervention at week 10
Acceptability will be assessed using the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-4 (CSQ-4), which is used to measure overall satisfaction and client self-efficacy in healthcare, mental health, and social programs. Scores range from 4-16, with higher scores indicating higher satisfaction with the treatment. CSQ-4 scores are commonly classified as "low satisfaction/dissatisfaction" (4-8), "moderate/neutral satisfaction" (9-12), and "high satisfaction" (13-16).
End of intervention at week 10
Determine feasibility of a 10-session, group-based, virtual treatment guided by the Mind over Mood treatment manual in patients with IBD with clinically significant depression and/or anxiety
Prazo: End of treatment at 10 weeks
Feasibility will be assessed by analyzing recruitment and retention (i.e., number of patients who are referred that enroll in the study and complete treatment)
End of treatment at 10 weeks

Medidas de resultados secundários

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Change in depression
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Measured via Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a 9-item self-report tool used to screen, diagnose, and measure the severity of depression in clinical settings. It scores depressive symptoms experienced over the past two weeks on a scale from 0 to 27, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms. Scores are commonly classified as "minimal or no depression" (0-4), "mild depression" (5-9), "moderate depression" (10-14), "moderately severe depression" (15-19), and "severe depression" (20-27).
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in anxiety
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Measured via Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), a 7-item self-report tool used to screen for anxiety and measure its severity over the past two weeks. Scores range from 0-21, with higher numbers indicating more severe symptoms. GAD-7 scores are commonly classified as "minimal anxiety" (0-4), "mild anxiety" (5-9), "moderate anxiety" (10-14), and "severe anxiety" (15-21).
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in fatigue
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Measured via Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-Fatigue), 13-item tool that measures tiredness and how it affects daily life over the past 7 days. Scores range from 0-52, with higher numbers indicating less fatigue. FACIT-Fatigue scores are commonly classified as "severe fatigue" (0-21), "moderate fatigue" (22-30), "mild fatigue" (31-40), and "little to no fatigue" (40-52).
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in sleep quality
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Measured via Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), 19-item self-report questionnaire that evaluates subjective sleep quality and disturbances over a one-month time period. Scores range from 0-21, with higher numbers indicating worse sleep quality. PSQI scores are commonly classified as "good sleep quality" (0-5) and "poor sleep quality" (6-21).
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in gastrointestinal symptom-specific anxiety (GSA)
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Measured via Visceral Sensitivity Index (VSI), a 15-item self-report questionnaire that evaluates GSA, including fear, hypervigilance, and avoidance of belly sensations. Scores range from 0-75, with higher numbers indicating worse GSA.
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in clinical IBD outcomes (CD)
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Measured for patients with CD via change in scores on the Harvey Bradshaw Index (HBI), a clinical tool used to measure the severity of CD based on five patient symptoms from the previous day. Scores range from 0-16 and up, with higher numbers indicating more severe disease activity. HBI scores are commonly classified as "clinical remission" (0-4), "mild disease activity" (5-7), "moderate disease activity" (8-16), and "severe disease activity" (16 or more).
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in clinical IBD outcomes (UC)
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Measured for patients with UC via change in scores on the Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index (SCCAI), a clinical tool used to measure the severity of UC. Scores range from 0-5 and up, with higher numbers indicating more severe disease activity. UC scores are commonly classified as "clinical remission" (0-2), "mild disease activity" (3-4), and "active flare or relapse" (5 or more).
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in biomedical IBD outcomes
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in biochemical inflammation measured by fecal calprotectin and c-reactive protein levels.
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in targeted metabolites including compounds from tryptophan metabolism
Prazo: Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).
Change in untargeted metabolite levels
Before, during, and after treatment (weeks 0, 5, and 10).

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Investigadores

  • Investigador principal: Alyse Bedell, PhD, CST, University of Chicago

Datas de registro do estudo

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Datas Principais do Estudo

Início do estudo (Estimado)

1 de setembro de 2026

Conclusão Primária (Estimado)

1 de junho de 2027

Conclusão do estudo (Estimado)

1 de junho de 2027

Datas de inscrição no estudo

Enviado pela primeira vez

24 de agosto de 2026

Enviado pela primeira vez que atendeu aos critérios de CQ

28 de agosto de 2026

Primeira postagem (Real)

1 de setembro de 2026

Atualizações de registro de estudo

Última Atualização Postada (Real)

1 de setembro de 2026

Última atualização enviada que atendeu aos critérios de controle de qualidade

28 de agosto de 2026

Última verificação

1 de agosto de 2026

Mais Informações

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Outros números de identificação do estudo

  • IRB26-0657

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NÃO

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Estuda um medicamento regulamentado pela FDA dos EUA

Não

Estuda um produto de dispositivo regulamentado pela FDA dos EUA

Não

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