The Delivery of "Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide"

Koç University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depressive Symptoms; Quality of Life; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04631887

2020.200.IRB3.080

Details and patient eligibility

About

The feasibility study for the delivery of the "Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide" will be carried out for Turkish and Syrian individuals with psychological stress. This feasibility study's sample will be adult Turkish and the Syrian refugees. The informed consent form and screening questionnaire of the feasibility study will be sent to the participants who have given this approval and 128 (64 Turkish and 64 Syrian) participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the feasibility study. The psychological problems will be measured twice, before and after the intervention.

Full description

Studies about the impact of epidemics such as Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on the psychological health of individuals show that psychological problems have been observed in individuals who are affected by the epidemic. Today, studies on the effects of COVID-19 on psychological health are also available in the literature, and the results of these studies are in line with those of previous studies on epidemics.

The aim of this project is to deliver the "Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide" that is developed by the World Health Organization within Self Help Plus (SH+) intervention to decrease their psychological problems for a feasibility study. The feasibility study for the delivery of the SH+ book will be carried out and the psychological problems of the participants will be measured twice, before and after the intervention to evaluate the results.

The most important contribution of the Project is conducting a feasibility study with the "Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide" which will be adapted to the Turkish culture based on the determination of Turkey's current psychological status, provide a form of intervention to the Turkish psychological intervention literature and to improve the psychological status of the participants in this project.

Enrollment: 126 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 18 years or above
• Being literate
• Being a Turkish citizen or a Syrian refugee
• Scoring 15 or above on Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)

Exclusion criteria

• Imminent suicidal risk
• Being illiterate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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126 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Arm: Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention arm will receive the assigned intervention for five weeks. They will receive the intervention materials and will be called by psychologists three times (at the beginning, middle and end) during the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide

Control Arm: Wait List

No Intervention group

Description:

The control arm has no intervention. The participants in the control arm will receive the intervention after the post-assessments are completed.