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se of domperidone in children with abdominal pai

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Abdominal pain predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders in children
Registration Number
SLCTR/2012/008
Lead Sponsor
none
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Age between 5-12 years
Children who fulfil the Rome III criteria for abdominal pain related FGD
Children with abdominal pain at least once per week for at least 2 months prior to diagnosis
Pain severity more than 25% on visual analogue scale pain interrupt the activities of the child (e.g. sleep, play, schooling etc)
Written informed consent from parents or legally-accepted guardians

Exclusion Criteria

Clinical or laboratory evidence suggesting organic pathology
Chronic medical or surgical disease other than FGD
Long-term medication for any illness other than FGD
Previous abdominal surgery except appendectomy
Use of prokinetic drugs or any other drugs that can alter gastrointestinal motility during the within 30 days prior to the diagnosis

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cure <br> i.Less than 4 episodes of abdominal pain per month<br> ii.Severity of abdominal pain less than 25mm in the visual analogue scale<br> iii.No interruption of activities due to abdominal pain<br><br> [8 weeks after the intervention]<br>Improvement : based on responses to 2 questions<br> i.Overall how do you feel your problem is? Answer will be better, same or worse. Better” will be regarded as positive result. Same” or worse” will be regarded as negative result<br> ii.How did the medication relieve your pain? Sense of improvement will be expressed as excellent, good, fair and poor. Excellent and good will be considered as positive result. fair and poor will be considered as negative result. [8 weeks after the intervention]<br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Improvement of quality of life using the PredsQL Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory - version 4 for young child report (ages 5 - 7 years) and child report (ages 8 -12 years) [At baseline and at 8 weeks after commencement]<br>Decrease impact on the family using the PredsQL Family Impact Module - version 2, parent report will be used [At baseline and at 8 weeks after commencement ]<br>Improvement of gastric motility using gastric emptying rate and antral motility index. An increase of 25% or more from baseline in the above motility parameters will be considered as improvement [At baseline and at 8 weeks after commencement ]<br>Tolerability of intervention: any specified, severe or unexpected adverse reactions among all those allocated study treatment compared to placebo [At baseline and at 8 weeks after commencement ]<br>
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