FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Behavioral Therapy Effective for Belching If Pts Accept Mechanism

Symptoms of supragastric belching are improved with cognitive-behavioral therapy in a substantial proportion of patients, a new study has found.

After 10 weeks of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), slightly more than half of the 39 people in the trial achieved at least a 50% reduction in symptoms and a significant improvement in quality of life, according to Akinari Sawada, MD, PhD, of the Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, in