Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression Amongst French Canadians

Universite de Moncton

Status: Completed

Conditions: Major Depression; Anxiety Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: The Wellbeing Course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03043833

File 1516-077

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study represents Phase II of a research program involving an international collaboration with Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) to implement an Internet-based cognitive behavior therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression in French-speaking Canadians from the Atlantic Provinces.

The primary objective is to establish the clinical efficacy of a French-Canadian self-guided format version of the Wellbeing Course by conducting a randomized-control trial where an experimental group will be compared to a waitlist control group. A secondary objective is to demonstrate the course's acceptability through participants' satisfaction with the course.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Residing in New-Brunswick, Nova-Scotia, Prince Edward Island, or Newfound land & Labrador
• Having identified French as the first official language spoken and having good reading comprehension in French.
• Reliable Internet access
• Clinically significant levels of depression or anxiety reflected by significant scores on the following measures: PHQ-9 > 9, GAD-7 >7, Penn Stage Worry Questionnaire ≥ 45, Social Phobia Inventory ≥ 19, Panic and Agoraphobia Scale ≥ 19, or by answering yes to the question "Is anxiety or low mood a problem for you"
• Not currently participating in cognitive-behavioral therapy
• No changes in medication for 4 weeks prior to the study, nor any changes in medication for the next 2 months
• Willing to disclose personal information

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of psychotic symptoms
• Presence of severe depression as indicated by scores ≥ 23 on the PHQ-9, or a score > 2 on item 9 of the PHQ-9

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Wellbeing Course

Experimental group

Description:

Will receive the French-Canadian version of the Wellbeing Course consisting of five lessons based on cognitive behavior therapy delivered through the Internet over eight weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Wellbeing Course

Waitlist-control

No Intervention group

Description:

The Waitlist Control Group will receive the French-Canadian version of the Wellbeing Course once the treatment group will have completed treatment.