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

NCT01011179 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2021-03-29

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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).

Conditions

  • Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Interventions

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance

    collaborator OTHER

  • Provincial Health Services Authority

    collaborator OTHER

  • Dalhousie University

    collaborator OTHER

  • IWK Health Centre

    collaborator OTHER

  • The Arthritis Society, Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • The Hospital for Sick Children

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Patrick J McGrath, MD · IWK Health Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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