Healthy Mood Internet Recruitment Study (DPC-R)

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Recruitment

Treatments: Behavioral: Healthy Mood Project Website

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01607164

DPC-R

1R34MH091231-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is pilot testing a self-help automated Website (similar to a self-help book) designed to help individuals to learn methods to manage their mood. The methods are cognitive-behavioral skills found effective in the treatment of depression when provided by live therapists. The purpose of the study is to determine the number of individuals who will visit the site, use the site, and respond to online surveys reporting their mood levels while using the site, and at 1, 3, and 6 months after starting to use the site. The investigators want to eventually examine whether learning these methods online would help prevent depression.

Full description

Self-help automated website in Spanish and English consisting of an 8-lesson course on mood management based on cognitive behavioral methods.

Accessible via the web.

Follow-up assessments conducted at 1, 3, and 6 months.

Enrollment: 1,226 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• valid email address
• fluent in English

Exclusion criteria

• less than 18 years of age
• no valid email address
• not fluent in English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,226 participants in 1 patient group

Online self-help mood management

Experimental group

Description:

Healthy Mood Project Website Online self-help automated mood management course available in Spanish and English via a website. Intervention consisted of 8 cognitive-behavioral mood management lessons.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Mood Project Website