The Effect of a Brief Online Behavioral Activation Intervention

Palo Alto University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral Activation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05914025

2021-082

Details and patient eligibility

About

Depression is a worldwide phenomena that has a severe personal, social and societal impact. One such impact is an over $200 billion worldwide economic cost. While many treatments exist for depression, many individuals may not receive the support that they need for reasons such as stigma, financial restraints, or limited access to therapists. As such, it is important to assess the efficacy of brief online treatments as an alternative to full length, in-person treatments. A series of studies looking at a brief behavioral activation for depression treatment has shown that participants have reported temporarily improved mood, confidence, motivation and reduced depressive symptoms. It is important to test this treatment in multiple groups of people to acquire additional information regarding brief online interventions. This study seeks to collect participants from online social media sources and compare results to historical data that were collected from a prior research study which used Amazon Mechanical Turk as a recruitment source.

Enrollment: 106 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• United States Resident

Exclusion criteria

• Non-US resident
• Younger than 18 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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106 participants in 1 patient group

Behavioral Activation Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

All individuals enrolled in the study will be assigned to this arm and will receive a brief behavioral activation psychoeducation module among other self-report assessments.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral Activation