Learning how to recover from stress: Results from an internet-based randomized controlled pilot trial.

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This study was sponsored by grants to the last author from the Swedish Council for Working and Life Research (FORTE) and Sweden's Municipalities and County Councils (SKL). We also would like to thank webmaster George Vlaescu, Linköping University, for his generous help with the study."

"In this randomized, controlled pilot trial, an internet-based recovery training program (iRTP) was compared with a wait-list control group (WLC). The study followed Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines () and was conducted between February 2018 and May 2019. Since this was one of the first iRTP, the pilot trial was planned and designed with the overall aim of providing information regarding content, recruitment strategies, and retention rates, and providing preliminary evidence of efficacy potential. Hence, no power calculation and estimates of sample size were conducted. Self-report outcome measures were collected at pre- and post-treatment (five weeks) and six- and 12-month follow-ups (). Participants who met the study criteria and provided informed consent were allocated randomly by an independent researcher using an online random generator (www.randomizer.org). All participants and coaches were randomized in a 1:1 proportion, allocating n = 35 to the iRTP group and n = 34 to the WLC group. The Ethical Committee of Linköping University, Sweden, approved all procedures used in the study (Reference No. 2016/11-31). The study was registered retrospectively at Clinical Trials (clinicaltrials.gov) reference number NCT05220592. The study design and trial were planned and executed according to the ethics approval and clinical trials registry.Fig. 1The flow of study participants. iRTP = Internet-based recovery training program; WLC = Waitlist control.Fig. 1"