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.