Anjana Jagpal

Nationwide Children's Hospital · Department of Pediatric Psychology

Objective: To evaluate whether clinical anxiety in children presenting to a pediatric pain management center is associated with a poorer treatment response for those who completed pain-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Study design: The total sample consisted of 175 children, 40 of whom completed CBT for chronic pain. The Screen for Ch...

Introduction: For a large portion of youth, pain-associated functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) are associated with significant impairment over time. Clinically feasible methods to categorize youth with FGIDs at greatest risk for persistent pain-related impairment have not yet been identified. Methods: Measures of functional disability...

Objective The purpose of the study was to assess the feasibility of an environmental school lunchroom intervention (‘Smarter Lunchrooms’) and test initial efficacy within a predominately Latinx population. Design We collected baseline and intervention lunchroom food consumption and waste data in a pre-post, single group design. Meal consumption da...

Childhood obesity is a significant public health concern associated with the development of the leading causes of death. Dietary factors largely contribute to childhood obesity, but prevention interventions targeting these factors have reported relatively small effect sizes. One potential explanation for the ineffectiveness of prevention efforts is...

Youth with chronic pain and youth who have experienced stressors are at risk for poor outcomes; however, little is known about the intersection of pain and stressors. This study aims to understand the prevalence of stressors among youth with chronic pain and the relationship between stressors and pain-related outcomes. Seven hundred and seventy you...

Mobile health (mHealth) apps have the potential to enhance pain management through the use of daily diaries, medication and appointment reminders, education, and facilitating communication between patients and providers. Although many pain management apps exist, the extent to which these apps utilize evidence-based behavior change techniques (BCTs)...

Anxiety and depression are particularly common in pediatric chest, abdominal, and headache pain. Shared genetic factors, biological processes, and neurochemical mechanisms may underlie these comorbidities. Chronic pain in children and adolescents is associated with substantial functional disability, and impairments are especially notable when youth...

Objectives: Due to the increasing survivorship of breast cancer, survivor's view of their families through the process of diagnosis and treatment is essential. The Theory of Health-related Family Quality of Life (HRFQoL) guided this exploration of the ways in which breast cancer impacts family life. In this study, HRFQoL was used to explore breast...

Statement of Problem: Previous research has found that disclosure of health status may yield different levels of support depending on illness type, with well-known physical health conditions being less stigmatized and more supported compared to less common physical diagnoses or mental health conditions. College students are an important population...

Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hEDS), a genetic connective tissue disorder, involves several body systems which makes symptom management and functioning difficult. The aim of this study was to understand pediatric hEDS patients’ symptoms and primary complaints. Additionally, we examined the cumulative impact of symptoms on physical and psychol...

The goals of the current project were: 1) examine the frequency of chronic illness (CI) disclosure, 2) examine how CI disclosure varies as a function of demographic factors (i.e. sex, illness type, time since diagnosis), and 3) examine how peer disclosure is related to social support.

Objective: Anxiety is common in pediatric chronic pain and is related to a higher risk for poor outcomes; thus, there is a need for effective clinical screening methods to identify youth with chronic pain and co-occurring anxiety. The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) is a validated measure that defines clinically significant anx...

Due to increasingly high rates of child overweight and obesity, it is important to identify risk and protective factors that may inform more effective prevention and intervention. The degree of organization in the family home environment is a studied, but not well-specified, factor that may impact child weight. Prior research on household organizat...

Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the Aim to Decrease Anxiety and Pain Treatment (ADAPT), a brief, on-line and in-person behavioral intervention targeting pain and anxiety in youth with functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPD). Methods: Patients were recruited from several outpatient pediatric gastroenterology clinic...

Objective: The primary objectives of this study were to examine the differential presentation(s) in young adults with Juvenile-onset Fibromyalgia (JFM) with and without a history of trauma as compared to healthy controls across psychological and health-related outcomes. Methods: 110 participants (86 with JFM and 24 healthy controls; Mage =23.4 y...