Psychological interventions for inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) often report psychological problems, unemployment, disability, sick leave and compromised quality of life. The effect of psychological interventions on health-related outcomes in IBD is controversial as previous reviews faced the obstacle of high heterogeneity among provided multimodular interventions. The heterogeneity can be addressed with network meta-analysis (NMA) and (multi)component NMA (CNMA). We aim to investigate whether psychological interventions can improve quality of life, clinical and social outcomes in IBD using NMA and CNMA. This is the study protocol.

Methods and analysis

We will consider randomised, quasi-randomised and non-randomised controlled trials, including cluster randomised and cross-over

SUBMITTER: Tiles-Sar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9226957 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature