Cure8 research brief
A patient-centered journey map identifies changing symptom, psychological, and social needs at different stages of Crohn's disease. That can help clinicians and care teams target education, mental-health support, and services when patients are most likely to need them.
Adult patients with Crohn's disease, newly diagnosed people, nurses and clinicians involved in IBD care, and healthcare managers planning integrated care pathways.
This study used interviews with 22 adults with Crohn's disease to create a visual “journey map” of symptom-management needs across three stages: screening/diagnosis (0–12 months), acute active phase (13–24 months), and remission maintenance (>24 months).
The researchers identified 32 core themes spanning physical, psychological, and social challenges — for example, misdiagnosis and role stress early on, symptom burden and access barriers during active disease, and complacency plus social reintegration problems in remission.
The paper highlights gaps in integrated, full-cycle care and recommends stage-specific support: better health education and rapid clinical response early, professional psychological support during acute phases, and social reintegration interventions during remission.
The journey map is offered as a tool for clinicians and nursing teams to plan more personalized symptom-management pathways. This brief summarizes the study abstract and reported aims, methods, and conclusions. It does not add new data beyond what the authors reported and does not evaluate study quality beyond the provided abstract.
This summary is grounded in the article abstract (interpretive qualitative study of 22 participants) and does not represent a full systematic review. Results reflect participants' reported experiences and authors' thematic synthesis; findings are useful for care planning but are not quantitative measures of effectiveness.
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Funding disclosed by the source: National Natural Science Foundation of China - 72274135; the Clinical Research Project under the Three-Year Action Plan for Discipline Construction of the School of Nursing, Tongji University (Preparatory) - JS2210317
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