Depression Management Project (DMP)

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Major Depression; Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-help cognitive-behavioral online course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01150604

T32MH019391

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an eight-lesson self-help intervention delivered online will result in a reduction of depressive symptoms.

Enrollment: 547 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants will be 18 years of age or older,
• Participants will have regular (>1 time/week) access to internet and email, with a valid email address,
• Participants will be fluent or almost fluent in English, and
• Participants will be looking for information to help themselves, rather than another person.
• Only those invited to participate will be eligible.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants under 18 years of age,
• Participants will with sporadic (< 1 time/week) access to internet and email,
• Participants who fail to provide an email address,
• Participants with English difficulties,
• Participants looking for information to help someone else, and
• Participants not invited will be ineligible.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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547 participants in 1 patient group

Self-help course

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-help cognitive-behavioral online course