Responses to Information on Treatments for Depression

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depressive Symptoms

Treatments: Other: CBT with Personalization; Other: ADM without Personalization; Other: CBT without Personalization; Other: Combined Treatment with Personalization; Other: Combined Treatment without Personalization; Other: ADM with Personalization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04639765

2020B0259

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of different messages about depression treatments.

Full description

Participants recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) will complete a screening questionnaire and provided the opportunity to consent to participate. Upon entry to the study, eligible participants will complete several questionnaires pre- and post-randomization. Randomization will be to view either a video detailing a type of depression treatment (cognitive behavioral therapy, antidepressant medication, or the combination of both treatments) with and without an emphasis on personalization. A no video condition is also included.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• PHQ-9 Score indicating a history of elevated depression symptoms
• A high MTurk completion rate
• Must pass all attention checks inserted into the questionnaires
• No history of treatment for depression

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 7 patient groups

No video

No Intervention group

Description:

This condition involves no video presentation.

CBT without Personalization

Experimental group

Description:

Video provides information about cognitive behavioral therapy.

Treatment:

Other: CBT without Personalization

CBT with Personalization

Experimental group

Description:

Video provides information about cognitive behavioral therapy and describes how treatment can be personalized.

Treatment:

Other: CBT with Personalization

ADM without Personalization

Experimental group

Description:

Video provides information about antidepressant medications.

Treatment:

Other: ADM without Personalization

ADM with Personalization

Experimental group

Description:

Video provides information about antidepressant medications and describes how treatment can be personalized.

Treatment:

Other: ADM with Personalization

Combined Treatment without Personalization

Experimental group

Description:

Video provides information on the combined treatment of cognitive behavioral therapy with antidepressant medications.

Treatment:

Other: Combined Treatment without Personalization

Combined Treatment with Personalization

Experimental group

Description:

Video provides information on the combined treatment of cognitive behavioral therapy with antidepressant medications and describes how treatment can be personalized.

Treatment:

Other: Combined Treatment with Personalization