Use of Guided Imagery for Functional Abdominal Pain in Children:

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Functional Abdominal Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: guided imagery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00327548

NIH 5P50-AT00008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of relaxation, with or without guided imagery, for treating children with functional abdominal pain. The study will evaluate a child's ability to decrease the amount of pain with these techniques to allow continuation of normal daily activities at home and at school. The hypothesis is that these relaxation techniques will help decrease reports of abdominal pain and improve levels of activity.

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

at least 3 episodes of abdominal pain over the previous 3 months normal complete blood count, sedimentation rate, urinalysis stable on current medications English speaking -

Exclusion criteria

unwillingness to participate chronic gastrointestinal disease cognitive-developmental delay major dissociative disorder