Online Positive Emotion Skills Intervention for Symptoms of Depression

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Conditions studied: Depression, Psychological Stress, Affect

In brief

Major depressive disorder affects over 120 million people worldwide. Only 50% of Americans with depression receive adequate treatment, and one-third of those receiving treatment do not benefit. In this pilot project investigators will bring together two approaches that have the promise to reach large numbers of depression sufferers: a skills-based intervention for increasing positive affect and experiences in depressed individuals, delivered in an inexpensive self-paced mobile format. The study will make use of smartphone technology to improve conventional outcome measurement via in-the-moment emotion sampling and mobile assessment of heart rate variability, a predictor of cardiac health that may mediate some of the health effects of depression. The aims are: 1) Retool the existing web-based positive emotion intervention for use on smartphones, with innovative exercises that help participants bring the skills they are learning into real- life situations; 2) Measure heart rate variability and emotions using existing smartphone software; and 3) Perform a randomized pilot trial of the mobile intervention on individuals with clinical depression recruited online.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01964820
Run by
University of California, San Francisco
People needed
95
Starts
2014-07-01
Expected to finish
2016-08-01
Last updated by the study team
2018-01-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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