Brief self-guided digital intervention versus a comprehensive therapist-guided online cognitive behavioural therapy for atopic dermatitis: a trial protocol for a randomised non-inferiority trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Our aim is to investigate whether a shortened digital self-care intervention is non-inferior to, and cost-effective compared with, a comprehensive and therapist-guided cognitive behavioural therapy treatment for atopic dermatitis (AD).

Methods and analysis

This is a single-blind, randomised clinical non-inferiority trial at Karolinska Institutet, a medical university in Stockholm, Sweden. We will recruit 174 adult participants with AD through self-referral. Participants will be randomised 1:1 to the two experimental conditions. Participants randomised to guided care will receive internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for 12 weeks. Participants randomised to digital self-care will have access to this self-guided intervention for 12 weeks. At post-treatm

SUBMITTER: Kern D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9980367 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature