NCT05486585

i-CBT Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Youth: the Impact of Negative Illness Understanding and Parental Illness Worries

Internet-delivered Psychological Treatment of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Youth: the Impact of Negative Illness Understanding and Parental Illness Worries

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Aarhus University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the current study, embedded in The Danish FGID Treatment Study, is to test Danish versions of Swedish i-CBT programs for children and adolescents with FGID in a Danish clinical context and to further evaluate the presence and impact of important psychological and parental factors.

Detailed description

Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) are common among children and adolescents. They affect quality of life, cause functional disability, school absence and high health care use. Parental behavior can significantly influence the young person's perception of bodily symptoms, which are thought to be part of development and maintenance of symptoms FGID. So are cognitive biases which are distortions in attention, memory and interpretation. The programs involve both the youth and their parents, which provides a unique possibility, to examine illness-related cognitive biases and the effectiveness of graded exposure in youths with FGID with an additional focus on parental distress and illness worries for treatment adherence and outcome.

Conditions

• Functional Abdominal Pain Syndrome
• Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for functional gastrointestinal disorders	The offered treatment will be the Danish versions of the Swedish i-CBT programs for children. The child i-CBT program consists of 10 modules for the child and 10 for parents. The adolescent i-CBT program consists of 10 modules for the adolescent and 5 modules for the parents. Child and adolescents modules compose of exposure exercises for symptoms, behavioural analyses and affect labelling and are adjusted for the specific age group. Parent modules aim at supporting parents in helping their child to engage in the challenging exposure exercises. The family needs to select one parent to participate in the parent program. The participants will be expected to use approximately 4 hours per week. The programs will be delivered over ten weeks, and therapist support will be provided on a weekly basis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-17
• Primary completion: 2025-06-01
• Completion: 2025-06-01
• First posted: 2022-08-03
• Last updated: 2025-05-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark