Cure8 research brief
Self-management support—whether through digital learning tools or nurse-delivered programs—can affect daily life for people with IBD. Understanding which element drives benefit could shape future care options and how resources are used.
For patients and clinicians, clearer evidence could guide choices about digital education versus personalized nurse support.
Adult patients considering digital self-management resources, IBD nurses and gastroenterology clinicians, and researchers designing behavioral or digital-intervention trials.
The authors highlight the need to separate the contributions of digital education tools from nurse-led self-management support when assessing interventions for IBD.
They reference a feasibility pilot randomized trial of a nurse-delivered program and place this question in the context of designing behavioral clinical trials for gut–brain interaction disorders.
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