Brief Video Interventions for Depression

Depressive Symptoms Clinical Trial

Official title: Building Mental Health Resilience in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

In this study, we test brief video interventions for those with elevated depressive symptoms. We randomize participants to one of three conditions. (1) An entrée condition involving in-depth coverage a set of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. (2) A sampler condition which introduces three sets of CBT skills. (3) A control condition involving no skills. Among those in the entrée condition, participants are further randomized to one of three CBT skills. We plan on two sets of primary comparisons. First, we will compare the effects of each form of video intervention (i.e., entrée and sampler) to the control condition. Second, we will compare the entrée and sampler conditions. We will recruit participants from Amazon's Mechanical Turk program (MTurk). In the intervention conditions, participants will be asked to watch several videos and practice skills using worksheets. They will also be asked to practice skills introduced in the videos in the week following the intervention. In the control condition, participants will not watch videos. One week after the intervention, all participants will respond to a follow-up assessment.

Clinical Trial Description

Access to the study will be provided via the MTurk website. Study measures and interventions will be provided via Qualtrics. To determine eligibility, participants will be asked to fill out a pre-screening measure of depressive symptoms, the Personal Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Those who score 10 or higher will be eligible. After consenting to participate, participants will fill out baseline measures, be randomly assigned to a condition, participate in any condition related procedures, and then respond to a follow-up assessment one week later.

Each brief intervention consists of watching a series of videos. After each video, participants in the intervention conditions will be prompted to answer a series of questions to practice the skills explained in the videos. For the entrée and sampler conditions, watching all videos and filling out any worksheets that are part of the initial intervention is expected to take approximately 30 minutes.

Participants in the entrée and sampler conditions will be asked to work on a coping skills worksheet over the next seven days (estimated to involve about 10 minutes of work). Participants will receive an email seven days after participating in the brief intervention, asking them to take part in the following portion of the study. Before beginning the follow-up activity, participants in the intervention conditions will be asked to upload the coping skills worksheet they worked on. All participants will be asked to respond to follow-up assessment measures at this point. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Depressive Symptoms

• NCT number: NCT04643964
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Ohio State University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 17, 2020
• Completion date: June 5, 2021