NCT01011179

Internet Self-Management Program With Telephone Support for Adolescents With Arthritis

An Internet-based Self-management Program With Telephone Support for Adolescents With Arthritis: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will evaluate the feasibility of "Teens Taking Charge: Managing Arthritis On-line" intervention that will help adolescents with arthritis to better manage their disease and improve their health-related quality of life (HRQL).

Detailed description

This feasibility study will (1) assess adolescents' willingness to be randomized; (2) pilot the intervention, attention control strategies (e.g., adolescents' 'own best efforts' at managing arthritis), and outcome measures; (3) determine adolescents' perceptions regarding acceptability of the web-based intervention; and (4) obtain estimates of treatment effects in primary (HRQL) and secondary (knowledge, coping, self-efficacy, stress, treatment adherence, pain) outcome measures to inform the calculation of appropriate sample size for the future RCT. We hypothesize that adolescents with JIA in the web-based intervention will demonstrate: (a) improved HRQL; (b) increased disease-specific knowledge; (c) improved coping, self-efficacy, and adherence to prescribed management; and (d) decreased pain and stress compared to adolescents in the attention control group

Conditions

• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Teens Taking Charge	The intervention is a 12-week multi-component treatment protocol that consists of self-management strategies (e.g., how to deal with stress and treatment related symptoms like pain), information (e.g., common problems associated with treatment and disease) and social support (e.g., monitored discussion boards and narratives in the form of written stories and video clips). It will be delivered on a restricted web-site and through regular contact with a trained coach by means of email and/or telephone using standardized scripts.
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Management	Adolescents' "own best efforts" at managing their JIA

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2009-11-11
• Last updated: 2021-03-29
• Results posted: 2014-03-07

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Canada