Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents With Chronic Functional Constipation: Educational Action Effects

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Functional Constipation

Treatments: Behavioral: Educational action with focal group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01901445

CAAE-0039.0.447.000-11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if the quality of life in children and adolescents diagnosed with chronic functional constipation improves after educational activity in focus group composed by these patients' mothers.

Full description

The present research will be conducted on the specific constipation clinic in Hospital das Clínicas at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

Enrollment: 11 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children (6 to 9 years-old) and adolescents
• Diagnostic of chronic functional constipation

Exclusion criteria

• Patients using calcium and/or heme
• Patients with organic diseases that causes constipation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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11 participants in 2 patient groups

Educational action group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational action with focal group

Control group

No Intervention group