Recruiting Adolescents With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis to Internet-Delivered Therapy: Internal Pilot Within a Randomized Controlled Trial

Emma Anderson   ¹ , DHealthPsych ;   Roxanne Parslow   ¹ , PhD ;   William Hollingworth   ² , PhD ;   Nicola Mills   ² , PhD ;   Lucy Beasant   ¹ , PhD ;   Daisy Gaunt   ^{2, 3} , MSc ;   Chris Metcalfe   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   David Kessler   ² , MD ;   John Macleod   ² , PhD ;   Susan Pywell   ⁴ ;   Kieren Pitts   ⁵ , PhD ;   Simon Price   ⁶ , PhD ;   Paul Stallard   ⁷ , PhD ;   Hans Knoop   ⁸ , PhD ;   Elise Van de Putte   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Sanne Nijhof   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Gijs Bleijenberg   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Esther Crawley   ¹ , PhD

¹ Centre for Academic Child Health, Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

² Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

³ Bristol Trials Centre, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

⁴ Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

⁵ Research IT, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

⁶ Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

⁷ Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

⁸ Department of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

⁹ Department of Paediatrics, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

¹⁰ Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands