Single-Session Intervention Targeting Emotional Awareness, Clarity, and Acceptance to Reduce Depression/Anxiety

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Relaxing with Nature; Behavioral: Visitor Mindset

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05109507

2000030587

Details and patient eligibility

About

Two-arm, parallel group randomized clinical trial conducted via Mturk comparing a single-session web-based intervention called Visitor Mindset versus a control intervention (nature videos with relaxing music) for adults with depression and/or anxiety symptoms

Full description

Procedures include completing: (1) pre-intervention assessments; (2) one of two single-session web-based intervention (approximately 30 to 45 minutes each); (3) post-intervention assessments, including survey questions following a negative affect induction (brief film clip); and (4) a 2-week follow-up assessment.

Enrollment: 530 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults 18 years and older
• English-speaking
• At least mild anxiety and/or depression symptoms, as indicated by a score of 3 or greater on the 4-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4)

Exclusion criteria

• fail to meet above-listed inclusion criteria
• exit the study prior to condition randomization
• obvious lack of English fluency in open response questions
• responding with random text in open response questions
• respond with either copy/pasted responses from text earlier in the intervention to any of free response questions
• participants with a completion time less than 180 seconds for the baseline survey assessment (taking about 1.5 seconds per question) OR who fail all three attention check questions in the baseline survey, indicating very careless, random, inattentive and/or hasty responding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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530 participants in 2 patient groups

Visitor Mindset

Experimental group

Description:

Single-session, self-guided web-based intervention (\~30 to 45 minutes) hosted on Qualtrics with animated videos, audio-guided exercises, graphics, text-based material, and interactive questions. The intervention is designed to enhance emotional awareness, clarity, and acceptance, as well as modify beliefs about the duration and usefulness of negative emotions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Visitor Mindset

Relaxing with Nature

Active Comparator group

Description:

Single-session self-guided web-based intervention (\~30 to 45 minutes) hosted on Qualtrics with videos (real-life images), text-based material, and questions. There are five videos showing different types of nature (e.g., forest scenes, beach scenes, etc.). Each video includes a sequence of pleasant nature photos (shown about 6 seconds each) with relaxing music in the background.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Relaxing with Nature