title: When in doubt, ask the audience: potential users' perceptions of Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic pain.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although research has demonstrated that Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (ICBT) for chronic pain helps with adjustment to pain, it remains unclear how this treatment option would initially be perceived by individuals with chronic pain.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore initial perceptions of ICBT and to examine variables that correlate with an expressed interest in ICBT as a treatment option among individuals with chronic pain.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 129 individuals with chronic pain completed a survey assessing perceptions of ICBT and individual difference variables that could be correlated with expressed interest in ICBT (eg, demographic characteristics, pain, computer self-efficacy).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed that most participants perceived ICBT as a potentially valuable service with multiple benefits. Being female, having greater pain severity and interference, and having greater computer self-efficacy and lower computer anxiety were positively correlated with interest in receiving ICBT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Combined with previous research on treatment efficacy of ICBT for chronic pain, the results should serve to stimulate further research on integrating ICBT within existing health care services.
authors.forename: Luke H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Heather D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Hadjistavropoulos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*