Brief Video Interventions for Depression

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depressive Symptoms

Treatments: Behavioral: Entrée: Interpersonal skills; Behavioral: Entrée: Behavioral skills; Behavioral: Sampler skills; Behavioral: Entrée: Cognitive skills

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04643964

2020B0326

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, we test brief video interventions for those with elevated depressive symptoms. We randomize participants to one of three conditions. (1) An entrée condition involving in-depth coverage a set of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. (2) A sampler condition which introduces three sets of CBT skills. (3) A control condition involving no skills. Among those in the entrée condition, participants are further randomized to one of three CBT skills. We plan on two sets of primary comparisons. First, we will compare the effects of each form of video intervention (i.e., entrée and sampler) to the control condition. Second, we will compare the entrée and sampler conditions. We will recruit participants from Amazon's Mechanical Turk program (MTurk). In the intervention conditions, participants will be asked to watch several videos and practice skills using worksheets. They will also be asked to practice skills introduced in the videos in the week following the intervention. In the control condition, participants will not watch videos. One week after the intervention, all participants will respond to a follow-up assessment.

Full description

Access to the study will be provided via the MTurk website. Study measures and interventions will be provided via Qualtrics. To determine eligibility, participants will be asked to fill out a pre-screening measure of depressive symptoms, the Personal Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Those who score 10 or higher will be eligible. After consenting to participate, participants will fill out baseline measures, be randomly assigned to a condition, participate in any condition related procedures, and then respond to a follow-up assessment one week later.

Each brief intervention consists of watching a series of videos. After each video, participants in the intervention conditions will be prompted to answer a series of questions to practice the skills explained in the videos. For the entrée and sampler conditions, watching all videos and filling out any worksheets that are part of the initial intervention is expected to take approximately 30 minutes.

Participants in the entrée and sampler conditions will be asked to work on a coping skills worksheet over the next seven days (estimated to involve about 10 minutes of work). Participants will receive an email seven days after participating in the brief intervention, asking them to take part in the following portion of the study. Before beginning the follow-up activity, participants in the intervention conditions will be asked to upload the coping skills worksheet they worked on. All participants will be asked to respond to follow-up assessment measures at this point.

Enrollment: 655 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Score above 10 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9
• Are 18 years of age or older

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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655 participants in 5 patient groups

Entrée: Cognitive Skills

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Entrée: Cognitive skills

Entrée: Behavioral Skills

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Entrée: Behavioral skills

Entrée: Interpersonal Skills

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Entrée: Interpersonal skills

Sampler Skills

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sampler skills

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants are not given videos to watch until their involvement in the study ends.