Patient Education in Children With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

NCT ID: NCT04294420

Last Updated: 2021-12-17

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

25 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-05-01

Study Completion Date

2021-12-01

Brief Summary

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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

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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

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Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Patient education program

Patient education program

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Patient education program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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.

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Children and adolescents between 8-17 years (until their 18th birthday) who have been diagnosed with any of the diagnoses irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia or functional abdominal pain according to the Rome III criteria.
* Blood samples, with normal outcome, in terms of complete blood count (CBC), Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), Anti-tissue Transglutaminase Antibody (tTG), and dipstick urinalysis. Faecal Calprotectin should be measured if diarrhea is present.

Exclusion Criteria

* Insufficient skills in the Swedish language.
* Severe psychiatric comorbidity (as suicidality, psychosis etc).
* Severe somatic comorbidity.
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

17 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Karolinska Institutet

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Agneta Uusijärvi

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Agneta Uusijärvi, MD PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Karolinska Institute, CLINTEC

Locations

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Karolinka Institutet

Stockholm, , Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

Other Identifiers

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2019-05417

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id