SOVA Ambassadors Community Setting

University of Pittsburgh

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: SOVA Ambassador; Behavioral: Self-Reflection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06066697

STUDY23020021

R21MD016143 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine participant adherence to intervention feasibility and acceptability of intervention, attention control, and implementation strategy.

Full description

A 1:1 pilot randomized controlled trial of the SOVA Peer Ambassador Program compared to attention control: brief psychoeducational independent assignments (i.e. reading SOVA articles and responding to open-ended questions without content creation and without peer interaction) (N=40) and evaluate feasibility of implementation strategy.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 21 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages 14 to 21

Can read and understand English

Has completed 6th grade

Scores at least 5 or greater on the PHQ-8 (depression) and/or 5 or greater on GAD-7 (anxiety) consistent with at least mild symptoms

Exclusion criteria

• no access to internet

Has an intellectual or physical ability which prohibits reading text on the internet (can participate if able to use with assistance, e.g. can use text to speech)

No active email account (can participate if plans to create one)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

SOVA Peer Ambassador Program

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be given login information for a website sova.pitt.edu. They will be given weekly emails notifications about new posts. The participant will be onboarded as a blogging peer ambassador. The participant will be expected to contribute content to the website at least once a month by 1. writing a blog article 2. sending information (de-identified photo or video or music) to post • If they choose this option they will be encouraged to submit their own photo, video, or music to the website or they will be encouraged to write a response to a photo, video, or music piece. 3. being interviewed by the RA and then the RA "ghostwriting" an article about the interview which they pre-approve prior to it being posted.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SOVA Ambassador

attention control: brief psychoeducational independent assignments

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will be sent a REDCap form where they will receive a link to a SOVA article to read and a question for them to answer about what they read that will be accessible only to the study team. They will be asked to do this a couple times a month and will be reminded about their participation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-Reflection