Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
Associations Between Parent–Child Attachment and Psychosocial- and Health-Related Symptoms in Children with Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders
Originally published 2025-10-11 · Children
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/children12101371 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Trust
How are children's perceptions of parental trust and communication measured when they live with recurrent pain?
The baseline analysis separates trust, communication and alienation in a clinical sample, before drawing comparisons with health-related symptoms.
Who was studied?
Children with functional abdominal pain disorders taking part in a treatment study
Age / stage: Childhood; mean age about 11
Read with three questions
- How are children's perceptions of parental trust and communication measured when they live with recurrent pain?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (children with functional abdominal pain disorders taking part in a treatment study) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
These are baseline data from a treatment trial, before the treatment comparison. Children with functional abdominal pain disorders are a selected group, and most participants were White.
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Camden E Matherne; Tasha B Murphy; Rona L Levy; Shelby L Langer; Joan M Romano; Miranda A L van Tilburg; C Meghan McMurtry (2025). Associations Between Parent–Child Attachment and Psychosocial- and Health-Related Symptoms in Children with Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders Children. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12101371
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