Anxiety and Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children

PHASE2/PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

81

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

July 31, 2004

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2010

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2010

Conditions
Abdominal PainAnxiety
Interventions
DRUG

Citalopram

Participants will be randomly assigned to citalopram or placebo in a parallel groups design for 8 weeks of double-blind treatment beginning with 10 mg per day week 1, 20 mg per day week 2, and 40 mg per day week 4 or thereafter if response is suboptimal and there are no significant side effects.

DRUG

Placebo

Participants will be randomly assigned to citalopram or placebo in a parallel groups design for 8 weeks of double-blind treatment beginning with 10 mg per day week 1, 20 mg per day week 2, and 40 mg per day week 4 or thereafter if response is suboptimal and there are no significant side effects.

Trial Locations (1)

43205

The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

lead

John V. Campo, M.D.

OTHER

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