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Table 1 Baseline Characteristics of Children and Parents by Intervention Group

From: Evaluation of guided imagery as treatment for recurrent abdominal pain in children: a randomized controlled trial

 

Guided Imagery (n = 14)

Breathing (n = 8)

P-value1

Child Factors

   

   % Male

23

50

0.17

   Years of age

11.1

11.0

0.94

   Months of pain at enrollment2

24.5

13.6

0.30

   Days of pain previous month

23.0

14.4

0.04

   Mean intensity of pain episodes

2.7

2.7

0.88

   Days with a missed activity in previous month

4.0

1.3

0.12

   Depression score2

6.6

7.1

0.80

   Somatization score

6.5

4.0

0.15

   Children's Somatization Inventory-total score

22.0

15.3

0.30

   Anxiety score2

9.7

8.3

0.36

   Perfectionism score2

9.0

8.1

0.43

   Separation anxiety score

12.1

8.0

0.08

   Temperament

   

Anger

2.4

2.3

0.89

Distress

2.1

1.8

0.41

Fearfulness

2.2

2.4

0.54

Activity

2.3

2.8

0.24

Sociability

3.2

3.3

0.86

Parent Factors

   

   Ethnicity

   

   % Both parents Anglo

54%

50%

1.00

   Anxiety score2

3.7

3.1

0.73

   Somatization score2

6.9

3.8

0.13

   Depression score2

6.8

6.3

0.87

Parenting Style

   

   Father caring score

4.1

3.6

0.59

   Father overprotection score

3.5

4.4

0.26

   Mother caring score

5.0

3.8

0.09

   Mother overprotection score

4.3

4.0

0.57

  1. 1 Chi-square test or Student t-test
  2. 2 Geometric mean of natural logarithm transformed data