Open AccessCognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Children With Functional Abdominal Pain and Their Parents Decreases Pain and Other Symptoms
Author(s) -
Rona L. Levy,
Shelby L. Langer,
Lynn S. Walker,
Joan M. Romano,
Dennis L. Christie,
Nader N. Youssef,
Melissa M. DuPen,
Andrew D. Feld,
Sheri Ballard,
Ericka M. Welsh,
Robert W. Jeffery,
Melissa Young,
Melissa J. Coffey,
William E. Whitehead
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the american journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.907
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1572-0241
pISSN - 0002-9270
DOI - 10.1038/ajg.2010.106
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal pain , cognition , cognitive behavioral therapy , physical therapy , pain catastrophizing , chronic pain , psychiatry
Unexplained abdominal pain in children has been shown to be related to parental responses to symptoms. This randomized controlled trial tested the efficacy of an intervention designed to improve outcomes in idiopathic childhood abdominal pain by altering parental responses to pain and children's ways of coping and thinking about their symptoms.