Exploring the Relationship between Parental Worry about their Children's Health and Usage of an Internet Intervention for Pediatric Encopresis
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether parental worry about their children's health predicts usage of a pediatric Internet intervention for encopresis. METHODS: Thirty-nine families with a child diagnosed with encopresis completed a national clinical trial of an Internet-based intervention for encopresis (www.ucanpooptoo.com). Parents rated worry about their children's health, encopresis severity, current parent treatment for depression, and parent comfort with the Internet. Usage indicators were collected while participants utilized the intervention. RESULTS: Regression analyses showed that parents who reported higher baseline levels of worry about their children's health showed greater subsequent intervention use (beta =.52, p =.002), even after accounting for other plausible predictors. Exploratory analyses indicated that this effect may be stronger for families with younger children. CONCLUSIONS: Characteristics of individuals using Internet-based treatment programs, such as parental worry about their children's health, can influence intervention usage, and should be considered by developers of Internet interventions.
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- Authors
- Magee, J. C., Ritterband, L. M., Thorndike, F. P., Cox, D. J., & Borowitz, S. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Virginia (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Pediatric Psychology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-09-04
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 530-538
- ISSN
- 0146-8693 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-735X
- PMC
- PMC2722136
- OpenAlex
- W2125540535
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Pediatric Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD028160, R01HD28160)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- parental worry, health anxiety, online intervention, child age
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety, Child, Depression, Encopresis, Female, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Regression Analysis, Socioeconomic Factors, Treatment Outcome, Internet
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