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

The Hospital for Sick Children

Status: Completed

Conditions: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: Teens Taking Charge; Behavioral: Self-Management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01011179

1000010809

Details and patient eligibility

About

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).

Full 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

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adolescents 12 to 18 years
• diagnosed with JIA,
• able to speak and read English or French
• able to complete baseline online outcome measures.

Exclusion criteria

• cognitive impairment
• major co-morbid illnesses (medical or psychiatric) which may impact their ability to understand and use the web-based program.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

Internet-based JIA Self-Management Program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Teens Taking Charge

Attention Control Group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-Management