Art and Movement at the Service of Children Who Are Victims of School Bullying (MOUV'ON)

In the context of the care of children or adolescents with unexplained chronic pain, it is not uncommon to find that some patients confide in past or present school bullying.

School bullying can have devastating consequences. Often taboo or not taken into account, it can lead to school phobia with dropout, extreme moral suffering or even reactive physical disorders. Loss of confidence, withdrawal into oneself can develop major depressive syndromes that can lead to suicidal thoughts and acting out.

The Mouv'on project offers these children/adolescents the opportunity to experience the art of movement, on the border between martial arts and dance (group sessions) and creative art (production of a street-art fresco) in order to regain confidence, restore the link to the other, discover or re-discover the relationship to the body.

It is indeed a parenthesis of relaxation, movement, breathing and meeting. The meeting of the child with himself but also with a group.

The objectives of the study are to assess the benefits of the workshops offered to children and adolescents on self-esteem and on the feeling of pain and the impact of pain on daily behavior.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Unexplained Chronic Pain; School Bullying
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Individual patient interviews

Detailed Description

The pain medicine consultation at Necker Enfants Malades Hospital sees very regularly and more and more frequently children and adolescents referred for unexplained chronic pain (abdominal pain, headache, limb pain) often associated with sleep disorders, eating disorders and behavioral disorders.

Sometimes, these disorders are so important that they invade the daily life of the child and lead to school absenteeism that can go as far as dropping out of school.

It is by dint of a specific listening, of patience, of taking into account the word of the child in consultation, that often, bonds are woven and the young patients confide on the past or present school bullying.

The pain medicine consultation at Necker Enfants Malades Hospital will offer these patients the opportunity to participate in two workshop sessions:

1. st workshop: The art of movement - 10 sessions (1 hour per session) The first thing children/teenagers will discover is the importance of breathing. They will be able to reclaim it and then experiment with it in pairs, with others, in different conditions.

   This work, accompanied by an experienced teacher, will consist of connecting/reconnecting to one's body through situations involving the physique and the small and large muscle groups, gently, at each person's pace.

   Young people will learn to be in movement (martial arts / dance) and to have the right posture with regard to different situations. Thus, they will experience this connection to themselves, to the other, to others, in conditions of cooperation or conditions known as opposition.

2. nd workshop: creative art - 8 sessions (from 1 to 2 hours per session) The street-art sessions will take place in two stages. The first is the preparation phase (3 sessions) during which the participants will choose the theme and patterns.

The second stage will be the realisation phase of the mural on a wall of the Necker hospital.

This creative art will allow children and adolescents to experiment together, create, help each other, talk to each other to be able to move forward again.

These street-art sessions (art that attracts, fascinates, and is an integral part of contemporary art), could make it possible to convey ideas, values, emotions and ultimately to convey strong messages.

The creation in team will help children and adolescents to develop many social skills, such as patience, empathy, communication, respect for others, compromise, cohesion and tolerance. It will also help them develop trust in themselves and in each other.

The objectives of the study are to assess the benefits of the workshops offered to children and adolescents on self-esteem and on the feeling of pain and the impact of pain on daily behavior.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 8

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Paris, France, 75015
    • Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years to 17 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients referred to a chronic pain consultation at the Necker hospital with identification of school absenteeism or dropping out and having been the victim of school harassment.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients referred to a chronic pain consultation at the Necker hospital with identification of school absenteeism or dropping out and having been the victim of school harassment
• Non-opposition of the holders of parental authority and of the child / adolescent
• Mobility to participate in workshops
• Patients fluent in French

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with proven psychiatric history, unwilling to work in a group
• Patients with reduced mobility

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort

Intervention / Treatment

Patients; Patients, children and adolescents referred to the chronic pain consultation of Necker Hospital with identification of school absenteeism or dropping out and having been the victim of school bullying.

Behavioral: Individual patient interviews; Two individual interviews, of one hour duration, will take place for each patient before the beginning of participating to the workshops and in the month following the end of the workshops. They will be led by a psychologist and a nurse from the functional pain and palliative medicine unit of Necker Hospital and 3 questionnaires will be completed during each interview.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment of self-esteem	We will use the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (CSEI), a self-administered questionnaire designed to measure attitudes toward the self in a variety of areas for children and adolescents. The CSEI consists of 58 items and yields an overall score and four separate scores representing specific aspects of self-esteem, namely, general self, social self-peers, home parents, and school academic. A set of eight additional items constitutes a lie scale. Each item is worth 2 points, making possible total scores range from 0 - 100, with higher scores relating to higher self-esteem. This questionnaire will be completed during the two individual interviews of the patient, before and 1 month after the workshops, in order to assess the benefits of workshops on self-esteem. Success will be defined for an average increase in score of 10% at the end of the workshops.	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Felt painful	The pain measurement tool will be adapted according to the age of the patient: Between 6 and 10 years old: corporal diagram which will give access to both the location and the intensity of the pain, supplemented by a few questions to assess the duration, rhythm, etc.; From 11 years old: pain rating using a numerical scale supplemented by a few questions to assess the duration, rhythm, etc. This assessment will be done during the two individual interviews of the patient, before the beginning of the workshops and in the month following the end of the workshops, in order to assess the benefits of workshops offered to children and adolescents on felt painful. Success will be define by a loss of 2 points in average on the pain scale (0 no pain to 10 worst pain) after the workshops.	6 months
Impact of pain on daily behavior (BPI)	The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) is a self-administered questionnaire use for chronic pain conditions. It is a nine items form which will give two main scores: a pain severity and a pain interference. The pain severity score is calculated from the four items about pain intensity rated from 0, no pain, to 10, pain as bad as you can imagine. The pain interference score corresponds to seven sub-items rated from 0, does not interfere, to 10, completely interferes. This questionnaire will be completed during the two individual interviews of the patient, before and 1 month after the workshops, in order to assess the benefits of workshops on the impact of pain on daily behavior. Success will be defined for an average decrease in score of 10% at the end of the workshops.	6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Collaborators: URC Necker Cochin, France
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Véronique Zellner, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris; Study Director: Céline Greco, MD, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 2, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 30, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): November 30, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 12, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 12, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): May 18, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): September 12, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 5, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Social skills; Self-esteem; Unexplained chronic pain; School bullying; Art of movement workshop; Creative art workshop; Feeling of pain
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavior; Social Behavior; Social Skills
• Other Study ID Numbers: APHP220339; 2022-A00430-43 (Other Identifier: ID-RCB Number)

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No