A systematic review of randomised controlled trials using psychological interventions for children and adolescents with medically unexplained symptoms: A focus on mental health outcomes
O’Connell, C., Shafran, R., & Bennett, S. (2019). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104519855415
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common, affecting between 4-20% of children and adolescents. Despite the low quality of evidence, this systematic review of 18 studies found that systematically-oriented interventions were most effective for addressing MUS. Interventions targeting parental responses to illness and family communication appeared to have the best outcomes.
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