Therapeutic alliance in a stepped digital psychosocial intervention for breast cancer patients: findings from a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Action mechanisms of therapeutic alliance in stepped and digital interventions remain unclear.

Aims

(a) To compare the development of therapeutic alliance between psychosocial treatment as usual (PTAU) and a stepped digital intervention designed to prevent distress in cancer patients; (b) to analyse the level of agreement between patients' and therapists' therapeutic alliance ratings; and (c) to explore variables associated with therapeutic alliance in the digital intervention.

Method

A multicentre randomised controlled trial with 184 newly diagnosed breast cancer women was conducted. Patients were assigned to digital intervention or PTAU. Therapeutic alliance was assessed at 3, 6 and 12 months after inclusion using the working alliance inventory for patien

SUBMITTER: Flix-Valle A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822986 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature