Unadjusted data was not statistically significant .
The other problems of psychological intervention included low recruitment and high drop out rate , which has been shown to be greater in patients receiving group therapy .
There is insufficient evidence from this review to confirm the efficacy of psychological intervention in NUD
BACKGROUND Studies have also shown that non-ulcer dyspepsia ( NUD ) patients have higher scores of anxiety , depression , neurotism , chronic tension , hostility , hypochondriasis and tendency to be more pessimistic when compared with the community controls .
However , the role of psychological interventions in NUD remains uncertain .
OBJECTIVES This review aims to determine the effectiveness of psychological interventions including psychotherapy , psychodrama , cognitive behavioural therapy , relaxation therapy and hypnosis in the improvement of either individual or global dyspepsia symptom scores and quality of life scores in patients with NUD .
Association of anxiety, neuroticism, and depression with dyspepsia of unknown cause. A case-control study.
Non-ulcer dyspepsia , also termed " nervous dyspepsia , " is a heterogeneous syndrome : ulcerlike symptoms can occur with the irritable bowel syndrome , gastroesophageal reflux , and other disorders . In addition , there is a significant subgroup of non-ulcer dyspepsia sufferers who have no disorder associated with , and no known cause for , their dyspepsia , and the dyspepsia in this subgroup is given the provisional name of " essential dyspepsia . " The aim of this study was to assess if psychological factors are associated with patients who present with essential dyspepsia .  Psychometric testing  was carried out on 76 essential dyspepsia patients ( including 18 patients with gastroduodenitis ) , 76 r and omly selected dyspepsia-free community controls ( matched for age , sex , and social class ) , and 66 duodenal ulcer controls .  Essential dyspepsia patients were retested a mean of 3.6 mo later . Using stepwise regression analysis , the initial scores of essential dyspepsia and duodenal ulcer subjects showed them to be more neurotic , anxious , and depressed than community controls ; these abnormalities persisted in essential dyspepsia patients on retesting and were not affected by the symptom status . It is concluded that essential dyspepsia patients who present for investigation with symptoms are more likely to be persistently neurotic , anxious , and depressed than dyspepsia-free controls , and this is unrelated to the presence of symptoms , but the association may not be of major clinical significance , as the numerical differences observed between groups were small and the correlation coefficients were low
Unadjusted data was not statistically significant .
The other problems of psychological intervention included low recruitment and high drop out rate , which has been shown to be greater in patients receiving group therapy .
There is insufficient evidence from this review to confirm the efficacy of psychological intervention in NUD
BACKGROUND Studies have also shown that non-ulcer dyspepsia ( NUD ) patients have higher scores of anxiety , depression , neurotism , chronic tension , hostility , hypochondriasis and tendency to be more pessimistic when compared with the community controls .
However , the role of psychological interventions in NUD remains uncertain .
OBJECTIVES This review aims to determine the effectiveness of psychological interventions including psychotherapy , psychodrama , cognitive behavioural therapy , relaxation therapy and hypnosis in the improvement of either individual or global dyspepsia symptom scores and quality of life scores in patients with NUD .