{"quality_controlled":"1","department":[{"_id":"4b2dc5c9-bee3-11eb-b75f-ecc80f94fb21"}],"date_created":"2026-05-30T20:49:12Z","title":"A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents","volume":30,"oa":"1","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"type":"journal_article","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1090-3801"],"eissn":["1532-2149"]},"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1"}],"user_id":"234690","publication_status":"published","publication":"European Journal of Pain","issue":"3","citation":{"bibtex":"@article{Neß_Humberg_Rau_Eidt_Berger_Claßen_Syring_Berrang_Vietor_Buderus_et al._2026, title={A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents}, volume={30}, DOI={10.1002/ejp.70249}, number={3}, journal={European Journal of Pain}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Neß, Verena and Humberg, Clarissa and Rau, Lisa‐Marie and Eidt, Leandra and Berger, Thomas and Claßen, Martin and Syring, Nils Christian and Berrang, Jens and Vietor, Christine and Buderus, Stephan and et al.}, year={2026} }","apa":"Neß, V., Humberg, C., Rau, L., Eidt, L., Berger, T., Claßen, M., … Wager, J. (2026). A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents. European Journal of Pain, 30(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70249","alphadin":"Neß, Verena ; Humberg, Clarissa ; Rau, Lisa‐Marie ; Eidt, Leandra ; Berger, Thomas ; Claßen, Martin ; Syring, Nils Christian ; Berrang, Jens ; u. a.: A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents. In: European Journal of Pain Bd. 30, Wiley (2026), Nr. 3","ieee":"V. Neß et al., “A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents,” European Journal of Pain, vol. 30, no. 3, 2026.","ama":"Neß V, Humberg C, Rau L, et al. A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents. European Journal of Pain. 2026;30(3). doi:10.1002/ejp.70249","mla":"Neß, Verena, et al. “A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents.” European Journal of Pain, vol. 30, no. 3, Wiley, 2026, doi:10.1002/ejp.70249.","chicago":"Neß, Verena, Clarissa Humberg, Lisa‐Marie Rau, Leandra Eidt, Thomas Berger, Martin Claßen, Nils Christian Syring, et al. “A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of an Educational Website About Functional Abdominal Pain for Children and Adolescents.” European Journal of Pain 30, no. 3 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70249.","short":"V. Neß, C. Humberg, L. Rau, L. Eidt, T. Berger, M. Claßen, N.C. Syring, J. Berrang, C. Vietor, S. Buderus, G. Hirschfeld, C. Becker‐Emden, J. Wager, European Journal of Pain 30 (2026)."},"author":[{"full_name":"Neß, Verena","last_name":"Neß","first_name":"Verena"},{"full_name":"Humberg, Clarissa","last_name":"Humberg","first_name":"Clarissa"},{"full_name":"Rau, Lisa‐Marie","last_name":"Rau","first_name":"Lisa‐Marie"},{"first_name":"Leandra","last_name":"Eidt","full_name":"Eidt, Leandra"},{"first_name":"Thomas","full_name":"Berger, Thomas","last_name":"Berger"},{"last_name":"Claßen","full_name":"Claßen, Martin","first_name":"Martin"},{"first_name":"Nils Christian","full_name":"Syring, Nils Christian","last_name":"Syring"},{"full_name":"Berrang, Jens","last_name":"Berrang","first_name":"Jens"},{"first_name":"Christine","full_name":"Vietor, Christine","last_name":"Vietor"},{"full_name":"Buderus, Stephan","last_name":"Buderus","first_name":"Stephan"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-2143-4564","full_name":"Hirschfeld, Gerrit","last_name":"Hirschfeld","first_name":"Gerrit","id":"234690","orcid_put_code_url":"https://api.orcid.org/v2.0/0000-0003-2143-4564/work/216243801"},{"first_name":"Christina","last_name":"Becker‐Emden","full_name":"Becker‐Emden, Christina"},{"last_name":"Wager","full_name":"Wager, Julia","first_name":"Julia"}],"status":"public","doi":"10.1002/ejp.70249","intvolume":" 30","date_updated":"2026-05-30T20:49:17Z","publisher":"Wiley","_id":"6940","year":"2026","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":" Methods - \r\n \r\n In a multicenter randomised controlled trial (RCT), patients with FAP (\r\n N\r\n  = 166, age 5–17 years,\r\n M\r\n  = 10.8, SD = 3.31; 53.6% female) and their parents were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG: access to the website before the first measurement) or a control group (CG: no access to the website during data collection). The primary outcome was health literacy (knowledge and health behaviour) and secondary outcomes were abdominal pain symptoms and the physician‐patient/parent interactions. Group differences were analysed using\r\n t\r\n ‐tests and multilevel models.\r\n \r\n
\r\n Results - \r\n Patients in the IG who visited the website demonstrated significantly higher initial knowledge scores compared to the CG. Moreover, they reported significantly less pain‐related disability across three assessments over 3 months. Parents who visited the website rated the physician‐parent interaction significantly more positively than those in the CG.\r\n
\r\n Conclusions - \r\n The educational website efficiently increased patient knowledge about FAP and improved certain pain‐related behaviours. It serves as an effective tool in conveying information about FAP in clinical practice. Future applications could extend to preventive measures in schools and other settings.\r\n
\r\n Significance Statement - \r\n The educational website about functional abdominal pain is effective in transferring knowledge, reducing pain‐related disability, and improving physician‐parent interactions. It can support physicians in day‐to‐day clinical practice by referring patients to the website for further information and might be extended as a preventive measure in schools.\r\n "}]}