AN APPROACH TO THE BEHAVIOR SUBJECT ON ABDOMINAL PAIN ARISING WHEN HAVING MEAL IN TREATMENT OF 56 CHILDREN

Wang Xiao, Song Leou

Department of Pediatrics, No.1 Hospital of Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province 325600, China

 

Objective: To explore the behaviors, disposition, psychological factors and family life of in-organic abdominal pain arising when a child refusing to have a meal.

Methods: Fifty-six children with in-organic abdominal pain arising when having a meal, 5-12 years of age, were investigated about their behaviors, minds, psychological tests (Bender Gestalt Test & EPQ Test), family life and whether the family has the only one child or not etc. Result In behaviors, minds, psychological factors all children tested have some problems. Most of them (96.4%) showed that their minds were not atrest, and they felt more or less anxious and easy to be with anger. Also they were introverts, and the majority were belong to the only one child in a family (89.3%). Moreover the parents disciplined their children more strictly (76.8%). The abdominal pain subsided after all the children tested could not attain the goal of not having a meal.

Conclusion: Those children, who are introverts, easy to be with anger, whose minds are not at rest, and whose parents usually force them to have a meal, are easier to suffer from this kind of abdominal pain. The effective treatments are to let them relax.

 

[Key words] Abdominal pain Child behavior Child psychology

 

 
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