VIDEO: Interdisciplinary care model improves psychosocial disease outcomes in IBD
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Preliminary data from the COMPASS-IBD study showed an interdisciplinary care model improved psychosocial outcome values among patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
“I wanted to take a particular look into how interdisciplinary care can impact the psychosocial outcomes in our recently diagnosed patients. Specifically, I looked at measures of resilience, self-efficacy and disability,” Caroline Benson, a second-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said in a Healio video exclusive. “We found COMPASS-IBD patients had a statistically significant increase in self-efficacy at 12 months. We look at domains of managing stress and emotions of medical care, medical symptoms and maintaining remission.”
Preliminary result suggested an interdisciplinary care program of IBD specialists, nutritionists, social workers and clinical pharmacists, improved patient’s confidence in their ability to manage their disease.
“Many times, patients have spent years, even a decade, of poorly managed or poorly empowered care, and they come to us disabled, helpless and hopeless,” Benson’s mentor, Laurie Keefer, PhD, professor of gastroenterology and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine, added. “One visit with the COMPASS program was sufficient for patients to feel that somebody had their back, somebody looked at their whole story psychologically, nutritionally and medically and set the stage for them to be able to manage their disease on their own.”
In collaboration with Ryan Ungaro, MD, associate professor of gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine, Benson looks forward to further investigating the effect of the COMPASS-IBD program at Mount Sinai and other long-term outcomes such as mental health measures.
Reference:
- Gold S, et al. Poster: A comprehensive interdisciplinary care program for recently diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease patients is associated with lower healthcare resource utilization. Presented at: Digestive Disease Week; May 21-24, 2021 (virtual meeting).
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