Mood color choice helps to predict response to hypnotherapy in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Carruthers, Helen R ^a   Morris, Julie ^b   Tarrier, Nicholas ^a   Whorwell, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMAGERY; INSTRUMENTATION; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANCHESTER COLOR WHEEL; MOOD; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SHADE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AFFECT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649723737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-75     Document Type: Article

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