Twelve-month follow-up of cognitive behavioral therapy for children with functional abdominal pain.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether a brief intervention for children with functional abdominal pain and their parents' responses to their child's pain resulted in improved coping 12 months later.

Design

Prospective, randomized, longitudinal study.

Setting

Families were recruited during a 4-year period in Seattle, Washington, and Morristown, New Jersey.

Participants

Two hundred children with persistent functional abdominal pain and their parents.

Interventions

A 3-session social learning and cognitive behavioral therapy intervention or an education and support intervention.

Main outcome measures

Child symptoms and pain-coping responses were monitored using standard instruments, as was parental response to child pain behavior. Data were collected at bas

SUBMITTER: Levy RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4167735 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature