Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions Via Telehealth: Applications to Pediatric Functional Abdominal Pain

This integrative literature review explores the utility of telehealth, specifically videoconferencing, for the delivery of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to youth with functional abdominal pain (FAP). Children with FAP and their families encounter a number of barriers to treatment that hinder access to traditional in-clinic treatments, such as CBT. Videoconferencing may be a feasible and effective alternative to traditional services and may hold benefits such as high rates of patient satisfaction, improved access to care, improved attendance rates, and cost reductions to the family. This article concludes that videoconferencing provides a good “fit” with the delivery of CBT to children and adolescents with FAP.