ArticleFrontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2022
Parental responses and catastrophizing in online cognitive behavioral therapy for pediatric functional abdominal pain: A mediation analysis of a randomized controlled trial.
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- Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for pediatric functional abdominal pain disorders: Parental factors in treatment response.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- In this together: Parental experiences with internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for childhood functional abdominal pain disorders.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Exposure-based Interventions for Chronic Pain and Bodily Symptoms: A Special Interest Meeting Report.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Article
- Associations Between Parent-Child Attachment and Psychosocial- and Health-Related Symptoms in Children with Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- "I'm a bit more free": Lived symptom experiences in adolescents with functional abdominal pain disorders after internet-delivered psychological treatment.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- Trajectories of Change, Illness Understanding, and Parental Worries in Children and Adolescents Undergoing Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders: Protocol for a Single-Case Design and Explorative Pilot Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Comparing the treatment effects of online cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric functional abdominal pain disorders with and without psychiatric comorbidity.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Parental distress and symptom severity in referred youths with functional abdominal pain disorders: a cross-sectional study prior to internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Evolution of Parent-Targeted Interventions for Pain-Predominant Disorders of Gut-Brain Interactions: Research and Clinical Practice Considerations.Clinical practice in pediatric psychology · 2023Article
- Virtual psychoeducation for improvement of pain catastrophizing in pediatric presurgical patients and caregivers: a proof-of-concept study.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023Article
- Parental Response to Children's Chronic Pain.Cureus · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objective: To test if decreased parental protective behaviors, monitoring behaviors, and parental catastrophizing mediate relief of gastrointestinal symptoms in children 8-12 years with functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPDs). The study uses secondary data analyses of a randomized controlled trial in which exposure-based online cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) was found superior to treatment as usual in decreasing gastrointestinal symptoms. Methods: The ICBT included 10 weekly modules for children and 10 weekly modules for parents. Treatment as usual consisted of any medication, dietary adjustments, and healthcare visits that the participants engaged in during 10 weeks. All measures were self-assessed online by parents. Biweekly assessments of the Adult Responses to Children's Symptoms (ARCS), Protect and Monitor subscales, and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale, parental version (PCS-P) were included in univariate and multivariate growth models to test their mediating effect on the child's gastrointestinal symptoms assessed with the Pediatric Quality of Life Gastrointestinal Symptoms Scale (PedsQL). Results: A total of 90 dyads of children with FAPDs and their parents were included in the study, of which 46 were randomized to ICBT and 44 to treatment as usual. The PCS-P was found to mediate change in the PedsQL Conclusions: To target parental catastrophizing in ICBT for pediatric FAPDs is potentially important to reduce abdominal symptoms in children.
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