Trial reportBMC pediatrics2014
Gut-directed hypnotherapy in children with irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain (syndrome): a randomized controlled trial on self exercises at home using CD versus individual therapy by qualified therapists.
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Self-Administered Hypnotherapy for Functional Dyspepsia
Hypnotherapy Through Self-exercises in Children With Functional Abdominal Pain in Primary Care
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Efficacy, Safety and Applications of Medical Hypnosis.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2016Pooled it
- Children with disorders of gut-brain interaction in primary care versus hospital care: A comparison of characteristics.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2025Trial
- Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Type Symptoms in Patients with Quiescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2021Trial
- Clinical hypnosis in pediatric care: An adjunctive tool or therapeutic illusion.World journal of experimental medicine · 2025Review
- Anxiety disorders presenting as gastrointestinal symptoms in children - a scoping review.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2025Article
- Anxiety and Depression in Children with Irritable Bowel Syndrome-A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Hypnotherapy self-exercises with audio files for children and adolescents with disorders of gut-brain interaction-a study of feasibility and preliminary effects in Sweden.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2025Article
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- Children's and Caregivers' Review of a Guided Imagery Therapy Mobile App Designed to Treat Children With Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders: Leveraging a Mixed Methods Approach With User-Centered Design.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Long-Term Follow-up of Individual Therapist Delivered and Standardized Hypnotherapy Recordings in Pediatric Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Functional Abdominal Pain.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2022Article
- Implementing psychological therapies for gastrointestinal disorders in pediatrics.Expert review of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2020Review
- Gut-focused hypnotherapy for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Evidence-base, practical aspects, and the Manchester Protocol.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2019Review
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- Brain-Gut Therapies for Pediatric Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Current gastroenterology reports · 2019Review
- Brain-Gut Axis: Clinical Implications.Gastroenterology clinics of North America · 2018Review
- Integrating Pediatric Hypnosis with Complementary Modalities: Clinical Perspectives on Personalized Treatment.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Maternal and Child Acceptability of a Proposed Guided Imagery Therapy Mobile App Designed to Treat Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders in Children: Mixed-Methods Predevelopment Formative Research.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2018Article
- Focus on the use of antidepressants to treat pediatric functional abdominal pain: current perspectives.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2018Review
- Connecting the Mind-Body Split: Understanding the Relationship between Symptoms and Emotional Well-Being in Chronic Pain and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Non-pharmacological management of abdominal pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders in children.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2016Review
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11 authors at 9 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional abdominal pain (syndrome) (FAP(S)) are common pediatric disorders, characterized by chronic or recurrent abdominal pain. Treatment is challenging, especially in children with persisting symptoms. Gut-directed hypnotherapy (HT) performed by a therapist has been shown to be effective in these children, but is still unavailable to many children due to costs, a lack of qualified child-hypnotherapists and because it requires a significant investment of time by child and parent(s). Home-based hypnotherapy by means of exercises on CD has been shown effective as well, and has potential benefits, such as lower costs and less time investment. The aim of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to compare cost-effectiveness of individual HT performed by a qualified therapist with HT by means of CD recorded self-exercises at home in children with IBS or FAP(S). METHODS/
design260 children, aged 8-18 years with IBS or FAP(S) according to Rome III criteria are included in this currently conducted RCT with a follow-up period of one year. Children are randomized to either 6 sessions of individual HT given by a qualified therapist over a 3-month period or HT through self-exercises at home with CD for 3 months.The primary outcome is the proportion of patients in which treatment is successful at the end of treatment and after one year follow-up. Treatment success is defined as at least 50% reduction in both abdominal pain frequency and intensity scores. Secondary outcomes include adequate relief, cost-effectiveness and effects of both therapies on depression and anxiety scores, somatization scores, QoL, pain beliefs and coping strategies. DISCUSSION: If the effectiveness of home-based HT with CD is comparable to, or only slightly lower, than HT by a therapist, this treatment may become an attractive form of therapy in children with IBS or FAP(S), because of its low costs and direct availability.
trial registrationDutch Trial Register number NTR2725 (date of registration: 1 February 2011).
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