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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dis Esophagus. 2014 Apr 3;28(5):428–436. doi: 10.1111/dote.12219

Table 2.

Summary of upper-GI patients appropriate for psychological intervention by presenting problem (N = 37)

Characteristic All Presenting Problem
GERD Globus Func HB NCCP§ Rumination Nausea/vomiting Dysphagia Belching
Gender (n)
 Male 4 1 1 3 0 2 1 2
 Female 5 5 5 0 4 2 2 0
Age (M) 50.9 46 37.8 67 29.5 46.8 50.3 64.5
No. sessions (Mdn)†† 7 5.5 6 5 3 5.5 7 2

N = 37: Only the 37 patients with upper GI complaints as the primary presenting problem are presented here. The remaining 11 patients who received treatment, presented with lower GI complaints as their presenting problem.

Func HB is functional heartburn.

§

NCCP is non-cardiac chest pain.

Belching is supragastric belching.

††

No. sessions was the median number of sessions for each diagnosis.