Phone app with guided imagery for children's long-lasting belly pain
Tests a guided imagery app for children with functional abdominal pain disorders.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Where
- Austin and Houston, United StatesSee the 2 sites
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Feasibility Study of a Guided Imagery Therapy Mobile Application for Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders in Children
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 63 people, planned
- Started
- 8 Sept 2026
- Expected to end
- 30 Apr 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Guided Imagery Therapy
- Record updated
- 17 September 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for children aged 7 to 12 with long-lasting functional belly pain. They will use a phone or tablet app with recorded guided imagery sessions.
- Age
- 7 to 12 years
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- A Rome IV Functional Abdominal Pain Disorder, shown by a 2-week diary of belly pain and bowel movements. Children must be Texas Children's Pediatrics patients.
- Earlier treatment
- Children who have already used cognitive behavioral therapy or guided imagery therapy for chronic belly pain cannot join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Earlier surgery on the belly
- Other illnesses that cause belly pain, such as cystic fibrosis
- Autism, significant developmental delay or psychosis
- Warning signs that need more medical checks, such as blood in the stool
- Child or main caregiver cannot read and speak English well
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Texas Children's Pediatrics patients 7 to 12 years old at enrollment
- A Rome IV Functional Abdominal Pain Disorder as defined by a 2-week abdominal pain and stooling diary
- Both children and their primary caregivers must be able to read and communicate in English proficiently to understand the intervention's audio therapy sessions and psychometric instruments
Who cannot take part
- Previous abdominal surgeries
- Prior experience with cognitive behavioral therapy or guided imagery therapy to treat chronic abdominal pain
- Co-morbid conditions associated with abdominal pain (e.g., cystic fibrosis)
- Autism
- Significant development delay
- Psychosis
- Alarm symptoms that warrant further medical evaluation (e.g., blood in stool)
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 7 and 12 years old?
Where in United States
- Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's HospitalAustin, United StatesContact: Hollier, MDTaking people
- Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's HospitalHouston, United StatesContact: Hollier, MDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Chronic abdominal pain is common among children, and the majority of cases are attributed to functional abdominal pain disorders. One approach to treating these disorders is by using psychological therapies. This clinical trial aims to see how well pre-recorded guided imagery therapy sessions help children's abdominal pain when delivered via a mobile application (app) on a smartphone or tablet.
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Participants will complete a baseline abdominal pain and stooling diary to determine eligibility, as well as other surveys. Eligible participants will be given access to the guided imagery therapy mobile application.
This intervention asks participants to listen to a 10- to 15-minute GIT session 5 out of 7 days per week for 8 weeks, in addition to their usual care for their abdominal pain. Then, participants will complete another abdominal pain and stooling diary, along with other psychometric surveys, at the end of this intervention period. Participants will also collect another diary and surveys 3 months post-treatment.
The group in the trial
- TreatmentTreatment being tested
Participants randomized to the Immediate Treatment arm will receive immediate access to the guided imagery therapy mobile application intervention.
Treatment: Guided Imagery Therapy
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Open-Labelled Feasibility Study of a Guided Imagery Therapy Mobile Application for Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders in Children
- Plain-language title
- Phone app with guided imagery for children's long-lasting belly painGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07222943, who can take part
- Record updated
- 17 September 2026