NCT04294420

Patient Education in Children With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Patient Education in Children and Adolescents With Pain-predominant Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: a Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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).

Detailed description

The patient education will be provided in a group setting and the children will participate along with one of their parents. Education consists of 2-hour long group sessions, given at 2 different occasions within a month. The hypothesis is that patient education will reduce gastrointestinal symptoms and pain and also improve quality of life in this group of patients.

Conditions

• Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-01
• Primary completion: 2021-05-01
• Completion: 2021-12-01
• First posted: 2020-03-04
• Last updated: 2021-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden