Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Disease on a Biopsychosocial Transition Intervention: Qualitative Interview Study

Brooke Allemang   ¹ , PhD ;   Ashleigh Miatello   ¹ , MA ;   Mira Browne   ^{1, 2} , HBSc ;   Melanie Barwick   ^{1, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Pranshu Maini   ^{1, 2} , BHSc ;   Joshua Eszczuk   ⁵ ;   Chetan Pandit   ⁶ , MSc ;   Tandeep Sadhra   ⁷ ;   Laura Forhan   ⁸ , BSc ;   Natasha Bollegala   ^{9, 10} , MSc, MD ;   Nancy Fu   ¹¹ , MHSc, MD ;   Kate Lee   ¹² , MBA, PhD ;   Emily Dekker   ¹² , MSW, RSW ;   Irina Nistor   ¹² , PhD ;   Sara Ahola Kohut   ^{1, 13} , PhD ;   Laurie Keefer   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Anne Marie Griffiths   ^{1, 13, 15} , MD ;   Thomas D Walters   ^{1, 13, 15} , MBBS, MSc ;   Samantha Micsinszki   ¹⁶ , PhD ;   David R Mack   ^{17, 18} , MD ;   Sally Lawrence   ^{19, 20} , MBChB ;   Karen I Kroeker   ²¹ , MSc, MD ;   Jacqueline de Guzman   ¹² , MSc ;   Aalia Tausif   ¹² , MBBS, MPH, MD ;   Claudia Tersigni   ^{1, 13} , MSc ;   Samantha J Anthony   ^{1, 22 *} , PhD ;   Eric I Benchimol   ^{1, 13, 15, 23 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Child Health Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁶ ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

⁷ Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

⁹ Division of Gastroenterology, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

¹² Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹³ SickKids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

¹⁵ Department of Paediatrics and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁶ CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research and the School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

¹⁷ CHEO Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹⁹ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

²⁰ Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

²¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

²² Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

²³ ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally