Pain Processing and Pain Neuroscience Education in Children With Chronic Abdominal Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02880332
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The primary scientific objective of the study entails examining whether altered endogenous pain inhibition is present in children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) compared with healthy controls (Part 1). A secondary objective implies examining whether pediatric pain neuroscience education (PNE) is able to improve pain catastrophizing, pain-related fear, pain intensity (including symptoms and indices of central sensitization) and pain-related functional disability in children with FAP or IBS (Part 2).
Study details
- Official title
- Endogenous Pain Processing and Effectiveness of Pain Neuroscience Education in Children With Functional Abdominal Pain and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Usual care
- Other: Pain Neuroscience education
- Other: Extra care
- Sponsor
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Collaborators
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Start date
- 2017-02-09
- Primary completion
- 2018-10-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 6 Years to 12 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Belgium
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Informed consent * \> 3 months pain * diagnosis functional abdominal pain or irritable bowel syndrome Exclusion Criteria: * Concomitant organic gastrointestinal disease or chronic disease * Ongoing specific treatment by another health care specialist (physician or psychotherapist) for abdominal pain symptoms * Previous pain education or relaxation therapy * Mental retardation * Insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language * Preterm birth * Menstruation
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02880332