Web-based cognitive-behavioral intervention for pain in pediatric acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis: Protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled trial from the study of chronic pancreatitis, diabetes and pancreatic cancer (CPDPC)

Abdominal pain is common and is associated with high disease burden and health care costs in pediatric acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis (ARP/CP). Despite the strong central component of pain in ARP/CP and the efficacy of psychological therapies for other centralized pain syndromes, no studies have evaluated psychological pain interventions in children with ARP/CP. The current trial seeks to 1) evaluate the efficacy of a psychological pain intervention for pediatric ARP/CP, and 2) examine baseline patient-specific genetic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics that may predict or moderate treatment response.

Source: Contemporary Clinical Trials - November 18, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Tonya M. Palermo, Caitlin Murray, Homer Aalfs, Maisam Abu-El-Haija, Bradley Barth, Melena D. Bellin, Kate Ellery, Douglas S. Fishman, Cheryl E. Gariepy, Matthew J. Giefer, Praveen Goday, Tanja Gonska, Melvin B. Heyman, Sohail Z. Husain, Tom K. Lin, Quin Y Source Type: research