Treatment Seeking for Social Anxiety

Social Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Brief Online Interventions to Facilitate Treatment Seeking for Social Anxiety

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04196296
• Other study ID #: 15-0452
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 28, 2016
• Est. completion date: July 6, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: December 2019
• Source: University of Colorado, Boulder
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 919
• Est. completion date: July 6, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: July 6, 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders
• Social Anxiety

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Psychoeducation
Online psychoeducation about social anxiety, evidence-based treatments that target social anxiety, and treatment referral/resource information.
• Motivation
Online exercises/activities regarding social anxiety (and treatment thereof) based in principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI)/Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Colorado Boulder	Boulder	Colorado

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Colorado, Boulder

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Treatment seeking motivations: Attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety.	Affective attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety were assessed using a standard 7-item 1-7 semantic differential scale in which participants rated "seeking treatment for social anxiety in the next month would be" according to opposite adjective pairs (e.g., "Unhealthy"/"Healthy"). Possible scores range from 7-49, with higher scores indicating more favorable attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety.	Change from baseline to one-month follow-up
Primary	Treatment seeking motivations: Intentions to seek treatment for social anxiety.	As the existing literature lacks a sufficient and specific scale for assessing intentions to seek treatment, we developed a scale based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(91)90020-T) as well as crucial steps toward seeking treatment identified previously (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0887-6185(02)00259-1). The resulting scale includes 13 total items assessing intentions to seek treatment for social anxiety in the following month. Items were rated using Likert scales from 1 ("strongly disagree"/"not very likely") to 7 ("strongly agree"/"very likely"), with higher scores indicating greater intention to seek treatment for social anxiety within the following month.	Change from baseline to one-month follow-up
Primary	Treatment seeking motivations: Perceived behavioral control/confidence regarding seeking treatment for social anxiety.	Paralleling the intentions scale above, the present study developed a measure of perceived behavioral control regarding seeking treatment for social anxiety, as the existing literature lacked a sufficient and specific measure. The resulting scale includes 14 total items assessment perceived ability to seek treatment for social anxiety in the following month. Items were rated using Likert scales from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 7 ("strongly agree"), with higher scores indicating greater perceived ability to seek treatment for social anxiety.	Change from baseline to one-month follow-up
Secondary	Treatment seeking behaviors	Checklist of behavioral steps toward seeking treatment within specific domains (i.e. in-person treatment, bibliotherapy, online-treatment, medication, and alternative treatments). Because the existing literature lacks a treatment-seeking behavior questionnaire, we developed a behavioral checklist adapted from Buckner and Schmidt (2009; doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.04.009). The measure included 19 total treatment-seeking behaviors across the above listed domains, and as such scores could range from 0 (no steps taken toward seeking treatment since intervention) to 19 (every listed step toward every type of treatment taken since the intervention). Higher scores are considered the better outcome in the present study.	One-month follow-up