Collaborative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Hypnotherapy for Treatment of Pediatric Functional Gastrointestinal Disease

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2016-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This program has been created to help patients with irritable bowel syndrome manage their symptoms and increase their functioning by using cognitive therapy skills and hypnosis.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Seton Healthcare Family
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Cathartics; Laxatives; Parasympatholytics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 8 - 18

• Meets Rome III Criteria for Pediatric Irritable Bowel Syndrome

• Abdominal discomfort or pain associated with 2 or more of the following at least 25% of the time

• Improved with defecation

• Onset associated with a change in frequency of stool

• Onset associated with a change in form of the stool

• No evidence of inflammatory, anatomic, metabolic, or neoplastic process that explains the subject's symptoms

• Criteria fulfilled once per week for at least 2 months before diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria: Unwillingness / Inability to engage in cognitive behavioral therapy arm of study (weekly encounters with psychologist)