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SynthesisPediatric rheumatology online journal2017

A systematic review of psychosocial therapies for children with rheumatic diseases.

Ezra M Cohen, Alessio Morley-Fletcher, Darshan H Mehta, Yvonne C Lee

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Synthesis in Pediatric rheumatology online journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ezra M CohenDivision of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. ezra.cohen@childrens.harvard.edu.
Alessio Morley-FletcherDepartment of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Darshan H MehtaBenson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 151 Merrimac St., Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Yvonne C LeeDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 60 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Benson-Henry Institute · USBoston Children's Hospital · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

MOLECULAR BASIS OF ALLERGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASET32AI007512 · NIAID · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI Janet Chou, Peter A Nigrovic · 1996 to 2026
$13.1M
CNS Pain Mechanisms in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis: Implications for the Acute to Chronic Pain TransitionR01AR064850 · NIAMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LEE, YVONNE CLAIRE · 2013 to 2025
$7.9M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007512NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR064850
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTo assess the quality of evidence for the effects of psychosocial therapies on pain and function in children with rheumatic diseases.

methodsWe conducted a literature search of MEDLINE and PsycINFO for randomized clinical trials of psychosocial interventions for pain and disability in children with rheumatic diseases from January 1969 to September 2015. Studies with a sample size less than 10 subjects were excluded. Study quality was assessed using the Jadad score.

resultsFive articles met inclusion criteria, for a total of 229 patients, aged 5 to 18 years. Two studies included children with fibromyalgia. Three studies included children with juvenile arthritis. Neither study in fibromyalgia reported the statistical significance of immediate between-group pre-post changes in functioning or pain. One study examining the effects of an internet-based psychosocial intervention in children with juvenile arthritis reported significant differences in post-intervention pain scores (p = 0.03). However, 2 studies did not show improvements in pain scores among children with juvenile arthritis treated with psychosocial interventions vs. a wait-list control or vs. an active control (massage). No studies reported significant between-group differences for functional outcomes in children with juvenile arthritis.

conclusionsThe available data were limited by the scarcity of randomized trials. Definite conclusions about the immediate effect of psychosocial interventions on pain and function in children with fibromyalgia could not be made because between-group comparisons of post-treatment change scores were not reported. For children with juvenile inflammatory arthritis, results of between-group comparisons for pain differed across studies, and analyses examining disability revealed no significant differences between groups.

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AdolescentArthritis, JuvenileChildChild, PreschoolFibromyalgiaHumansMeditationMind-Body TherapiesMusculoskeletal PainPsychotherapyRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicJuvenile arthritisJuvenile fibromyalgiaMeditationMind-body therapiesPsychological therapies

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PMID28095871
PMCPMC5240254
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