iCHD-PWR is an Internet-based mental health prevention program for siblings of children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD). The iCHD-PWR was developed with children and adolescents with CHD and their families, health care providers, and clinicians and researchers at the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan with funding from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation and the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation.
The iCHD-PWR was designed to help siblings of those with CHD learn more about CHD, themselves, and about strategies that could be helpful. Each person who completes the iCHD-PWR will become more powerful as they will have new knowledge and information that can help in their lives. The iCHD-PWR can be completed in the comfort of their own home across the following topics:
- What is congenital heart disease (CHD)?
- How to stay healthy with CHD?
- How CHD Affects Me?
- Feelings, Bodily Sensations, Thoughts, Behaviours- How do they all fit together?
- Now what? What to do with all these thoughts and feelings?