Development of the Therapeutic Alliance and its Association With Internet-Based Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressed Cancer Patients: Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

Else Bisseling   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Linda Cillessen   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Philip Spinhoven   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Melanie Schellekens   ^{4 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Félix Compen   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Marije van der Lee   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Anne Speckens   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Radboudumc for Mindfulness, Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

² Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

³ Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

⁴ Helen Dowling Institute, Centre for Psycho-Oncology, Scientific Research Department, Bilthoven, Netherlands

*all authors contributed equally