LYNN D WALKER

..To evaluate effects of mothers' and fathers' chronic pain on health outcomes in adult sons and daughters with a childhood history of functional abdominal pain (FAP)...

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..Parents' responses to children's symptom complaints can significantly increase or decrease those complaints. Girls with functional abdominal pain are particularly vulnerable to the symptom-reinforcing effects of parental attention...

..Assessed the convergent and discriminant validity of a water load symptom provocation test (WL-SPT) in creating visceral sensations similar to the naturally occurring sensations experienced by children with functional abdominal pain...

..To assess the validity of the Protect Scale of the Adult Responses to Children's Symptoms (ARCS) Questionnaire with regard to mothers' responses to their children's abdominal pain...

..Results suggest that coping-skill interventions for children with chronic pain should target reductions in passive coping and consider the potential benefits of accommodative coping strategies...

..Results are discussed in relation to developmental processes, attachment styles, and treatment implications...

..To test the hypothesis that pain patients differ from well children in their appraisal and coping with daily stressors and to test a model of the relation of stress appraisal and coping to symptoms and disability...

..To conduct a multimethod psychometric evaluation to refine the Children's Somatization Inventory (CSI) and to investigate its dimensionality...

..The authors tested the hypothesis that most patients with childhood RAP could be classified into one or more of the symptom subtypes defined by the Pediatric Rome Criteria...

..Youth with FAP that persists into adulthood may be at increased risk for chronic pain and headache. Examination of central mechanisms that are common across chronic pain disorders may enhance understanding of this subgroup of FAP...

..To determine the prevalence of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) in a primary care setting and to assess the usefulness of pediatric Rome criteria...

..To better understand this association, gastrointestinal and psychological features of pediatric patients' clinical presentation were examined in relation to a laboratory-based measure of visceral sensitivity...

..This prospective study characterizes trajectories of symptoms and impairment in pediatric patients with abdominal pain not associated with identifiable organic disease...

..Potential implications for later hypertension risk are discussed...

..Anxious mothers of children evaluated for chronic abdominal pain may be less distressed and more satisfied when a functional diagnosis is delivered by a physician with a biopsychosocial rather than a biomedical orientation...

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..To identify symptoms and psychosocial factors that predicted referral for esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and discriminated between patients with positive versus negative biopsy findings...

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..To conduct a pilot study evaluating a procedure for assessment of daily symptoms and functioning in pediatric patients...

..To examine the influence of social factors (e.g., attention, relief from responsibility) and children's perceived competence on pediatric symptom maintenance...

..This study evaluates the relations among children's knowledge of esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and anticipatory anxiety, procedural distress, and the nature of postprocedural recall and evaluations...

..To examine the relation of children's pain severity, perceived pain threat, and passive coping to maternal worry and family activities...

..The purpose of this study was to compare classification results using Rome II versus Rome III criteria for FGIDs associated with chronic abdominal pain...

..We tested the hypothesis that multiple nongastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in children presenting with CAP is a marker for clinically significant levels of depressive symptoms...

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..CONCLUSIONS: This study has implications for how children are prepared for EGDs and supports the utility of an appraisal-based model in understanding children's experiences with medical procedures...

..Study results add to a growing body of empirical literature supporting the reliability and validity of the FDI for functional assessment of pediatric patients with chronic pain...

..The conclusions are based on the evidence reviewed in the technical report and on consensus achieved among subcommittee members...

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..Among adults with functional gastrointestinal disorders, psychological distress influences who consults a physician, but little is known about predictors of consultation when the patient is a child...

..Pediatric studies of therapeutic interventions were examined and found to be limited or inconclusive...

..As with any health care intervention, patients' lack of compliance is a barrier to the effectiveness of Web-based information prescriptions (WebIPs). WebIPs cannot be helpful if patients do not review the information prescribed for them...

..The future availability of additional evidence-based data will likely continue to modify pediatric criteria for FGIDs...

..Study results have the potential to yield insights into mechanisms linking stress to illness behavior in RAP and, in addition, to identify intervention targets that prepare children and their parents to better manage RAP. ..

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..Subjects will be pediatric patients with RAP and with organic diagnosis for abdominal pain, and well children, between 8 and 15 years of age. ..

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