According to a small study, few individuals with tetchy bowel syndrome experience quick improvement with behavioral therapy, with the benefits continuing for at least some months.

It was found by a research that about 71 adults who were allocated to get cognitive behavioral therapy for IBS, 30% were swift responders that meant that within a month of starting therapy, enough relief of abdominal pain and bowel symptoms was reported by the patients.

It was found that almost 20 of 21 kept up to those developments for three months, after the end of their therapy.

It has been said that compared to the 50 study patients who did not show fast improvement, only 28% were thought to be treatment responders at the three-month mark.

The journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology has published the findings.

"We've known that (cognitive behavioral therapy) is a very promising treatment for IBS," said lead researcher Dr. Jeffrey M. Lackner, of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Lackner said that the study was minute, and how long the advantages of cognitive behavioral therapy can carry on is still not known.

It has been said that the goal of the Cognitive behavioral therapy is provide aid to the people with IBS to detect their symptom causes and gain knowledge of handy ways to control them.