Guided Self-help for Common Mental Disorders
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Bibliotherapy
In brief
Common mental disorders (CMDs) like depression and anxiety account for a large proportion of disability worldwide. Access to effective treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is limited and has not reduced the public health burden of psychopathology. For patients with mild-moderate CMDs, lower-intensity treatments like guided self-help CBT (GSH-CBT) are effective and more scalable (e.g., via the internet). The advent of social media has opened avenues for dissemination of GSH-CBTs and allows for passive sensing of mood, thinking, behavior, and social networks. We propose to leverage a social media platform used by over a fifth of the United States (Twitter) as a recruitment tool to virtually screen over 150 individuals, recruit N=60 to a 5-week course of GSH-CBT, and extract social media data from individuals engaged in GSH-CBT. Sociodemographic and social media data will be used to predict engagement, outcomes, and processes in GSH-CBT.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04870099
- Run by
- Indiana University
- People needed
- 141
- Starts
- 2020-10-17
- Expected to finish
- 2022-05-21
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-08-03
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- At least mild distress: K6 score ≥ 6
- Having reasonably regular access to the internet or a telephone
You may not qualify if…
- Suicidality: Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ9) item 9 ("thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself ") ≥ 2 ("more than half the days")
Where it is running
- Indiana University — Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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