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Inclusion Criteria

• •Participants need to meet the criteria for functional abdominal pain as specified by the Rome III:
• •Scenario #1 Criteria for inclusion
• •1. In the last 2 months, how often did the child have pain or an uncomfortable feeling in the upper abdomen above the belly button? If ≥ 8 (or if the combination of #1 and #2 is ≥8)
• •2. In the last 2 months, how often did the child have pain or an uncomfortable feeling in the upper abdomen below the belly button? If ≥ 8 (or if the combination of #1 and #2 is ≥8)
• •Scenario #2 Criteria for inclusion 3. In the last 2 months, when the child hurt or felt uncomfortable above (below) the belly button, how often did your child miss school or stop activities? If #1 and #2 is ≥ 2 (or if the combination of #1 and #2 is ≥2) and #3 is ≥ 25% of the time.
• •They also have to be at or above cutoff (i.e. TS\>= 55) for Beck Youth Inventory (BYI) which can be determined by finding the corresponding raw score, gender, and age on Appendix A in the BYI manual.