NCT00852878

The Treatment of Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children

The Treatment of Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children: A Comparison of Biofeedback and Behavioral Intervention

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if two treatments, a biofeedback and behavioral protocol, for recurrent abdominal pain are equally effective.

Detailed description

Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is a functional disorder that affects approximately 10 to 25% of children in the United States. This population tends to be heavy medical users in a search of a treatment for the chronic pain, but at this time there is no standard treatment protocol. The literature proposes that there are two effective treatments for RAP, a relaxation protocol by Sanders et al. (1994) and a biofeedback protocol currently in use at Kaiser, but neither treatment has been widely accepted as standard treatment. A purpose of this study is to gather more data on both treatments to help move one or both treatments into the standard of care for RAP. The hypothesis of this study is that the biofeedback and the relaxation protocols will have equivalent treatment outcomes.

Conditions

• Recurrent Abdominal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Biofeedback	Biofeedback will teach resonant frequency breathing for 6-8 sessions
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Protocol	Behavioral protocol will teach a variety of pain management techniques such as relaxation, distraction, and coping statements over 6-8 sessions

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-01-01
• First posted: 2009-02-27
• Last updated: 2015-06-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States