Hartford’s Connecticut Children’s Medical Center has been awarded a $38,000 grant to study behavioral intervention methods for children with sickle cell disease.
The grant was provided by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The study will examine whether an eight-week behavioral pain intervention program administered online via a web series to children with sickle cell disease and their families can be effective in reducing pain and decreasing health care contacts.
Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disease of individuals of African descent, affecting 100,000 children and adults in the United States. Children with the disease suffer recurrent episodes of severe, unrelenting pain.
