NCT01572896

An Internet-based Self-management Program for Adolescents With Arthritis

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 333 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the "Taking Charge: Managing JIA Online" Internet intervention, when compared with an attention (static education only websites) control group in improving pain and HRQL as well as other health outcomes (anxiety, depression, treatment adherence, pain coping, knowledge, and self-efficacy) in adolescents with JIA. The proposed study will enroll and randomize 294 adolescents with JIA attending 10 pediatric rheumatology hospital clinics in the Canada to either the experimental or control groups.

Detailed description

In summary, no rigorous Internet self-management intervention has been undertaken to improve HRQL, symptoms, treatment adherence, knowledge, and self-efficacy in youth with JIA. The proposed "Managing JIA Online" Trial will rigorously examine the effects of this Internet intervention on HRQL and other health outcomes thereby filling a significant gap in our knowledge related to promotion of self-management care for adolescents with JIA.

Conditions

• Arthritis, Juvenile Idiopathic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Taking Charge: Managing JIA Online	In addition to standard medical care, adolescents in the experimental group will receive the "Taking Charge: Managing JIA Online" Internet self-management program. The intervention is a 12-module interactive multi-component treatment protocol - that consists of JIA-specific education, self-management strategies, and social support - that is available in English and French.
BEHAVIORAL	Standard Medical Care and JIA Resource Center	The control group is designed to control for the potential effects on outcomes of time, attention and computer use during the intervention and through the 9-month follow-up period. In addition to standard medical care, adolescents in the attention control group will be provided with access to a self-guided patient education study website, which will have two components: basic patient educational materials about JIA ("JIA Resource Centre") and online assessments.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2012-04-06
• Last updated: 2017-04-04

Locations

11 sites across 1 country: Canada