Patient Education in Children With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
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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).
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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.
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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.
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25 participants in 1 patient group
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