Patient Education in Children With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

The education program provides information and guidance concerning aetiology, diagnostics and treatment of pain-predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders. The patient education program will be provided in a group setting and the children will participate along with one of their parents. The participants (n=20) will be divided into two groups consisting of ten child-parent pairs. Two lectures will be held, two weeks apart, two hours per lecture. Represented teachers are physician, psychologist and dietician.