Internet-enhanced management of fibromyalgia: A randomized controlled trial

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“Fatigue, sleep and mood domains (e.g., depressive and anxiety symptoms) were not impacted by this Internet intervention.”

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“Relatedly, unlike pain and functional deficits which were common to all participants, not all participants possessed difficulties with each of the secondary outcome measures.”

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“group assignment was given to both the participant and selected study staff only after completion of the baseline assessments.”

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“An intent-to-treat approach was used in this study; therefore all 118 individuals who were randomized at baseline were included in the subsequent analyses.”

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“Participants were randomly assigned to a treatment condition using a 1:1 ratio.”

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“The SF-36 is a widely used measure of self-reported functional status and was developed as a generic measure capable of being used and compared across differing disease states.”

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  cites [65] Ware JE Snow K Kosinski M SF-36r Health Survey: Manual and Interpretation Guide Lincoln, RI QualityMetric, Inc 1993 2000

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“Allocation concealment was utilized to prevent selection bias”

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“The attrition rate for the study was 10.2%.”

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“For many patients, optimal care may require the combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and exercise [27].”

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• Not checked yetcites [27] Goldenberg DL Burckhardt C Crofford L Management of fibromyalgia syndrome JAMA 2004 292 19 2388 2395 15547167 source

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“Study personnel assigned to assist participants in the clinic setting were blinded to participants’ treatment assignment.”

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“with the added benefits of convenience, privacy, and providing clinicians with the ability to provide a full-spectrum of care to patients even in remote areas [29; 48].”

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• Not checked yetcites [29] Griffiths KM Christensen H Internet-based mental health programs: a powerful tool in the rural medical kit Aust J Rural Health 2007 15 2 81 87 17441815 source
• Not checked yetcites [48] Ritterband LM Thorndike FP Cox DJ Kovatchev BP Gonder-Frederick LA A behavior change model for internet interventions Ann Behav Med 2009 38 1 18 27 19802647 PMC2878721 source

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“Several cognitive-behavioral oriented Internet interventions have been studied for use with chronic pain (e.g., [14; 10; 46])”

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• Not checked yetcites [14] Buhrman M Faltenhag S Strom L Andersson G Controlled trial of Internet-based treatment with telephone support for chronic back pain Pain 2004 111 3 368 377 15363881 source
• Not checked yetcites [10] Brattberg G Internet-based rehabilitation for individuals with chronic pain and burnout: a randomized trial Int J Rehabil Res 2006 29 3 221 227 16900043 source
• Not checked yetcites [46] Palermo TM Wilson AC Peters M Lewandowski A Somhegyi H Randomized controlled trial of an Internet-delivered family cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention for children and adolescents with chronic pain Pain 2009 146 1–2 205 213 19695776 PMC2760656 source

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“This finding is consistent with a face-to-face study demonstrating greater improvements in pain and functional status being associated with interventions emphasizing behavioral over cognitive skills [61].”

What the sources say

• Not checked yetcites [61] Thieme K Flor H Turk DC Psychological pain treatment in fibromyalgia syndrome: efficacy of operant behavioural and cognitive behavioural treatments Arthritis Res Ther 2006 8 4 R121 16859516 PMC1779398 source

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“As a compromise we selected against the use of passive monitoring in favor of an older more traditional methodology for measuring adherence to behaviorally oriented treatments - homework monitoring [1].”

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• Not checked yetcites [1] Abraham C Michie S A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in interventions Health Psychol 2008 27 3 379 387 18624603 source

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“At first this might be surprising given the efficacy of CBT in insomnia and mental health conditions [22; 58].”

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• Not checked yetcites [22] Edinger JD Wohlgemuth WK Krystal AD Rice JR Behavioral insomnia therapy for fibromyalgia patients: a randomized clinical trial ArchInternMed 2005 165 21 2527 2535 16314551 source
• Not checked yetcites [58] Stuhlmiller C Tolchard B Computer-assisted CBT for depression & anxiety: increasing accessibility to evidence-based mental health treatment J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 2009 47 7 32 39 19678477 source

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“Patients also benefit as they can access self-management information in private and at their own convince over the long term–which is an important consideration when managing a condition that by definition is chronic [48].”

What the sources say

• Not checked yetcites [48] Ritterband LM Thorndike FP Cox DJ Kovatchev BP Gonder-Frederick LA A behavior change model for internet interventions Ann Behav Med 2009 38 1 18 27 19802647 PMC2878721 source

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“The BPI is a multidimensional pain measure validated for use in chronic, nonmalignant pain.”

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• Not checked yetcites [59] Tan G Jensen MP Thornby JI Shanti BF Validation of the Brief Pain Inventory for chronic nonmalignant pain J Pain 2004 5 2 133 137 15042521 source

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“Further, such a program offers clinicians (particularly rural clinicians) high quality information for their patients without the requirement of finding a qualified local therapist (which in some settings, is unattainable).”

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“Both arms of the study initiated the use of this measure concurrently and thus these data are available for roughly half of the subjects in each arm of the study.”

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“Another strength of the current study was the objective of evaluating a purely web-based, no-contact intervention for use in the context of routine care.”

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“In support of the internal validity of the study, the the WEB-SM group did in fact differ from the standard care arm based on the content participants perceived themselves to have received.”

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“This six-month, randomized controlled intent-to-treat trial, demonstrated that a no-contact educationally-based Internet self-management program significantly reduced pain and improved physical functioning in individuals with FM compared to a standard care control group.”

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“These findings are consistent with previous studies demonstrating the benefits of cognitive and behaviorally oriented approaches to managing FM delivered in traditional face-to-face formats [40; 68; 67; 61].”

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• Not checked yetcites [40] Morley S Eccleston C Williams A Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour therapy for chronic pain in adults, excluding headache Pain 1999 80 1–2 1 13 10204712 source
• Not checked yetcites [68] Williams DA Cary MA Groner KH Chaplin W Glazer LJ Rodriguez AM Clauw DJ Improving physical functional status in patients with fibromyalgia: a brief cognitive behavioral intervention JRheumatol 2002 29 6 1280 1286 12064847
• Not checked yetcites [67] Williams DA Psychological and behavioural therapies in fibromyalgia and related syndromes BestPractResClinRheumatol 2003 17 4 649 665 12849717 source
• Not checked yetcites [61] Thieme K Flor H Turk DC Psychological pain treatment in fibromyalgia syndrome: efficacy of operant behavioural and cognitive behavioural treatments Arthritis Res Ther 2006 8 4 R121 16859516 PMC1779398 source

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“From the perspective of translational clinical research, our use of a standard care control condition represents a preferred methodology for a study of this nature [20].”

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• Not checked yetcites [20] Danaher BG Seeley JR Methodological issues in research on web-based behavioral interventions Ann Behav Med 2009 38 1 28 39 19806416 PMC3846298 source

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“A conservative approach to imputation (i.e., baseline observation carried forward (BOCF)) was used in ITT analyses for missing endpoint values due to early termination.”

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“Thus each of the 13 modules contained in the website possessed theoretical grounding and possessed empirical support from traditional face-to-face studies justifying their inclusion in this program (see Table 1).”

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• Not checked yetcites Table 1

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“The two groups did not differ from one another with respect to any of the sample characteristics or on baseline outcome measures (see Table 3) thus supporting the success of randomization.”

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“A no-contact intervention may not be sufficiently intense or structured to address the needs, complex sets of symptoms, and preferences of all patients.”

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“supporting both the accessibility, relevance, and durability of the information contained within the modules for this patient population.”

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“Similarly metrics associated with duration of time spent on the website was not collected given that this metric can be confounded by factors such as internet connection speed, the ability of participants to access a page and leave the room, and the fact that more viewing is not linearly tied with better outcomes [20].”

What the sources say

• Not checked yetcites [20] Danaher BG Seeley JR Methodological issues in research on web-based behavioral interventions Ann Behav Med 2009 38 1 28 39 19806416 PMC3846298 source

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“As is the case with pharmacological agents, not everyone with FM will benefit from this intervention.”

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“The use of such a delivery platform has application in the context of primary care where clinical practice has not been able to take full advantage of evidence-based non-pharmacological interventions for FM.”