title: Exploring therapeutic alliance with an internet-based self-management program with brief telephone support for youth with arthritis: a pilot study.
abstract: Findings from a pilot study are presented exploring therapeutic alliance between adolescent juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients and a trained nonprofessional health coach during the feasibility testing of a 12-week self-management program delivered online with brief telephone support. Therapeutic alliance was measured using the Working Alliance Inventory Client Scale (WAI-C), and qualitative information about the experience was gathered using the Distance Experience Questionnaire. WAI-C scores were found to be comparable to previously published pediatric face-to-face data and pediatric distance treatment data. Therapeutic alliance scores were also found to be correlated with improved treatment outcomes (decreased reported pain).
authors.affiliation: Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. meghan.white@sickkids.ca
authors.forename: Meghan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Jennifer N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Stinson
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lingley-Pottie
authors.forename: Patrick J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: McGrath
authors.forename: Navreet
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gill
authors.forename: Abi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vijenthira
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012648:Self Care / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013689:Telephone