Psychological Issues in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Overview

Table 2

Options for management of psychological disorders in patients with IBD.

Treatment	Study	Effectivity
	Psychological problems	Course of IBD	Quality of life
Supportive-expressive and psychodynamic therapy	Keller et al. [80] and Wietersheim et al. [81]	Ineffective	Ineffective	Not reported
CBT or stress management	Boye et al. [45, 82], Sibaja et al. [83], Schwarz and Blanchard [84], Mussell et al. [85], Szigethy et al. [86]	Effective	Ineffective	Effective
	Garcia-Vega and Fernandez-Rodriguez [87],; and Shaw and Ehrlich [88]	Effective	Effective	Not reported
IBD-focused counseling	Wahed et al. [89]	Effective	Effective	Not reported
Lifestyle modification program	Langhorst et al. [26, 90]	Effective	Not reported	Effective
Mind-body therapy	Elsenbruch et al. [91]	Effective	Not reported	Effective
Antidepressants	Mikocka-Walus et al. [7, 92]	Effective	Controversial	Not reported