title: Integrating illness concerns into cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and co-occurring anxiety.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the feasibility and preliminary benefits of an integrative cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and anxiety.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nine adolescents participated in a CBT program at their gastroenterologist's office. Structured diagnostic interviews, self-report measures of anxiety and pain, and physician-rated disease severity were collected pretreatment and post-treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Postintervention, 88% of adolescents were treatment responders, and 50% no longer met criteria for their principal anxiety disorder. Decreases were demonstrated in anxiety, pain, and disease severity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anxiety screening and a mental health referral to professionals familiar with medical management issues is important.
authors.affiliation: Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Lreigada@brooklyn.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Laura C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Reigada
authors.forename: Keith J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Benkov
authors.forename: Jean-Marie
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Bruzzese
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hoogendoorn
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Szigethy
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Briggie
authors.forename: Deborah J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Walder
authors.forename: Carrie Masia
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Warner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D016896:Treatment Outcome