Treatment Seeking for Social Anxiety

University of Colorado Boulder (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Psychoeducation; Behavioral: Motivation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04196296

15-0452

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study developed and then compared via randomized trial two brief online interventions targeting increasing treatment-seeking behavior in social anxiety.

Enrollment: 919 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• High social anxiety (score >30 on Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) Connor et al., 2000)
• Fluent in English
• Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT approval rate > 95%
• Amazon Mechanical Turk account listed as US resident

Exclusion criteria

• Already enrolled in target treatments (i.e. CBT for social anxiety, using social anxiety self-help book, or participating in online treatment for social anxiety)
• Indicating that they would "never consider" treatment for social anxiety

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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919 participants in 2 patient groups

Psychoeducation

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychoeducation

Psychoeducation plus Motivation Enhancement

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivation

Behavioral: Psychoeducation