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Patient Education in Children With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

NCT04294420 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2021-12-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This pilot-study aims to evaluate the effect size and feasibility of patient education for children and adolescents (age 8-17 years) with pain-predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders (irritable bowel syndrome, functional abdominal pain and functional dyspepsia according to the Rome III criteria).

Conditions

  • Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Patient education program

The education program provides information and guidance concerning aetiology, diagnostics and treatment of pain-predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders. The patient education program will be provided in a group setting and the children will participate along with one of their parents. The participants (n=20) will be divided into two groups consisting of ten child-parent pairs. Two lectures will be held, two weeks apart, two hours per lecture. Represented teachers are physician, psychologist and dietician.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Agneta Uusijärvi, MD PhD · Karolinska Institute, CLINTEC

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-05-01
Primary Completion
2021-05-01
Completion
2021-12-01

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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