The Feasibility Study of The Delivery of The Book From Self Help Plus: "Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide"
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress, Quality of Life, Depressive Symptoms
Sponsor: Koç University

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Feasibility Study of The Delivery of The 
Book From Self Help Plus: "Doing What 
Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated 
Guide"   
 
 
 
[NCT ID not yet assigned] 
 
12/11/2020 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Study Protocol 
 
 
A feasibility study will be conducted to see if it is realistic or feasible to test the effectiveness 
the Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide for Turkish and Syrian 
individuals with psychological stress. Participants will be recruited through the advertisement 
of the study on social media. Potential participants who applies to participate in the study will 
complete an online screening & baseline survey if they approve the online informed consent 
form. 
 
The screening questionnaire will include Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) and a 
suicidality screening form. The baseline questionnaire will include Patient Health 
Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), four items from PTSD 
Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), an item from the World Health Organization Quality of Life 
(WHOQOL), the General Self-Efficacy Scale and the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire 
(AAQ-2). The participants who are older than 18 years old, who are literate, scores 15 or 
above from K10 and who does not have imminent suicidal risk will be included in the study. 
At the end, we aim to include 128 (64 Turkish and 64 Syrian individuals) participants in the 
study. The participants will be randomized into intervention and control arm. 
 
The participants’ phone numbers and e-mail addresses will be received within the survey. 
The booklet will be sent to the participants in the intervention arm. The psychologists who 
are trained on delivering Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide will 
get in contact with the participants three times during the participants. For the first time, 
psychologists will inform the participants about the program and introduce the booklet. For 
the second time, the psychologists will get in contact with the participants to see whether they 
need any support in using the booklet. And for the third and last time, psychologists will get 
in contact to review the process with the participants and get feedback. The booklet consists 
of five sections and related audio recordings. The participants will be asked to work on each 
section for a week. The whole program will take five weeks. The psychologists will call the 
participants during the first week, third week and the fifth week. 
 
The participants will receive another online survey link one week after the completion of the 
program. The post test will include the same questionnaires with the pre-assessment. After 
the post-assessments are completed, the participants in the control group will also receive the 
booklet and the audio recordings. 
 
Data will be analyzed by using a statistical package called IBM SPSS 21.0. Considering the 
groups as fixed factor, linear mixed models will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of SH+ 
intervention on primary (PHQ-9) and secondary outcomes (GAD-7, PCL-5, WHOQOL, 
General Self-Efficacy, AAQ-2).