Alexithymia and Attachment Style in Patients With Somatic Symptoms
ConditionSomatic Symptom Disorder
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age11-17
SponsorMeyer Children's Hospital IRCCS
About this trial
To evaluate whether emotional awareness, attachment style and the ability to abstract and symbolize (IQ) influence the appearance of somatic symptoms. Hypothesis: the investigators expect the presence of somatic symptoms linked to the lower ability of emotional awareness, to lower ability to abstract and symbolize and to an insecure attachment style.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Clinical condition characterized by somatic symptoms such as recurrent abdominal pain, recurrent vomiting, dyspepsia, psychogenic cough, and chronic functional pain (headache, migraine, musculoskeletal pain) for which an organic cause has been excluded and whose symptom has had a strong impact on the quality of life (presence of the symptom for six months, school absenteeism, social isolation, immobility, psychological distress, difficulty in participating in sports and extracurricular activities, etc.), as per Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria.
Age between 11 and 17 years
Italian speaking
Patients' and parents' consent
Disqualifiers
Cognitive and/or developmental impairment
Difficulty in understanding the Italian language
Presence of organic disease diagnosis
Lack of informed consent
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- psychological assessment
Treatment groups
300 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov