Cognitive therapy for throat and chest symptoms
Part of Digestive system clinical trials.
This trial tests if a cognitive-behavioral therapy (a type of talk therapy that helps change thoughts and habits) can improve chronic throat and chest symptoms like heartburn, reflux, lump in throat, or trouble swallowing. It is for people who have these symptoms without a known structural problem in the esophagus.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are between 18 and 75 years old.
- You have ongoing symptoms like heartburn, acid reflux, a feeling of something stuck in your throat, trouble swallowing, or chest pain.
- You do not have any narrowing, surgery, or other disease in your esophagus or throat.
- You have not taken certain medications that affect the esophagus (like some painkillers or heart drugs) in the past month.
- You have not taken antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs in the past three months.
- You are not pregnant or breastfeeding.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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