The Help Yourself Online website and associated treatment materials are available to interested colleagues for research and clinical purposes (where no fee is charged to patients or to an insurer for the clinical service).

Help Yourself Online was created by Dr Carrie Hicks in 2000-2001. Numerous CD-ROM and web-based treatment programs have been developed by other groups since that time. Prospective users are encouraged to investigate these.

HELP YOURSELF ONLINE

Help Yourself Online is a 7-week distance treatment program for children 9 to 16 years of age with recurrent abdominal pain and/or headaches. It uses interactive web pages, e-mail, and telephone contact with children and their parents, with no requirement for office visits.

For further information about the content of Help Yourself Online, including sample pages, please click here: www.usask.ca/childpain/research/hicks

If you are interested in using Help Yourself Online, please write to Dr Carl von Baeyer, carl.vonbaeyer [at] usask.ca (substitute @ for [at] in the e-mail address).

Please explain in detail your reasons for wanting to use Help Yourself Online. See conditions of use below.

The program includes web site pages, a therapist manual in MS Word and Rich Text Format providing step-by-step suggestions regarding program delivery, a sample pain diary, suggested relaxation scripts, and a sample thought journal. Please note that the website itself is not a stand alone treatment, but rather a framework around which a program can be delivered. Note: Each user will need to make minor modifications to the website URLs in the source code to make it operational in their own web space.

CONDITIONS OF USE

• The program is copyrighted material (unless otherwise specified) and is not to be duplicated without permission.
  
  
• Users of the program agree to cite the following article in any publications or presentations:

Hicks, C. L., von Baeyer, C. L., & McGrath, P. J. (2006). Online psychological treatment for pediatric recurrent pain: a randomized evaluation. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 31, 724-36.

• In addition, colleagues agree to share research findings, including individual anonymized data, with Dr Carrie Hicks on her request.
  
  
• The original authors maintain copyright.
  
  
• The program cannot be used for any commercial purposes including service to clients for which a fee is charged to the client or to an insurer.
  
  
• The website may be posted to the Internet but should not be made available to the public generally; only password-entry is allowed in web reposting.
  
  
• If modifications are made to the program, the original program must be cited.
  
  
• Consultation concerning adaptation of the files for web servers is not available. They were written in HTML standard at the time the program was developed (2000-2001).