Study: NCT05687162

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Intervention: Overcoming Loneliness three-week intervention
Description: A self-guided online loneliness intervention with three 10-20 minute sessions. The intervention content draws heavily from Internet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Loneliness and follows the form of single-session mental health interventions.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Overcoming Loneliness single-session intervention
Description: The Overcoming Loneliness Three-Week Intervention condensed into a single-session intervention lasting 20-30 minutes.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Intervention: Overcoming Loneliness single-session intervention
Description: The Overcoming Loneliness Three-Week Intervention condensed into a single-session intervention lasting 20-30 minutes.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Intervention: Overcoming Loneliness single-session intervention
Description: The Overcoming Loneliness Three-Week Intervention condensed into a single-session intervention lasting 20-30 minutes.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Intervention: Single-session Sharing Feelings program
Description: A self-guided online supportive therapy intervention with a single 20-30 minute session intended to encourage users to share feelings with close others. Slightly modified from the Sharing Feelings intervention

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Intervention: Single-session Sharing Feelings program
Description: A self-guided online supportive therapy intervention with a single 20-30 minute session intended to encourage users to share feelings with close others. Slightly modified from the Sharing Feelings intervention

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: The Blu Surfer program: a popular online content-based intervention for psychological distress
Description: The Blu Surfer Program is a 25-minute SSI the research team developed centered on popular online content relevant to mental health. In the SSI, the user is first asked to select the kinds of support they would like to view. Next, the user is asked to explore a library of annotated popular online content (filtered by their desired kinds of content) and to select the content they find personally valuable. Finally, the SSI provides the user an annotated list of the content they selected. Users can keep this list to draw from, build on, or share later on as they wish.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Intervention: The Action Brings Change (ABC) Program (TEAM Lab version)
Description: The ABC project is a 20-30-minute SSI for teens based on behavioral activation. It was found to be efficacious for reducing depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and self-hate and increasing perceived control and agency in youth (link to SSI: https://osf.io/ch2tg/, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). The researchers modified the phrasing in the intervention to make it more relevant to both teens and adults, as the original was designed for only teens.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Intervention: Online help-seeking as usual
Description: This intervention, created by the present research team, aims to emulate how one might find support on their own using the internet. In this condition, participants are asked to browse the internet for 25 minutes to find popular online content relevant to their personal struggles and create an annotated list of links to the content they find useful. The intervention is similar to a self-study condition, which found self-study and a video intervention equally increased mental health knowledge. The survey platform provides text entry boxes to help each participant create their guide and then provides a text version of their guide for them to keep.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: The Lonely Blu Surfer program: a popular online content-based intervention for loneliness
Description: The Lonely Blu Surfer Program is a 25-minute SSI the research team developed centered on popular online content relevant to loneliness. In the SSI, the user is first asked to select the kinds of support they would like to view. Next, the user is asked to explore a library of annotated popular online content (filtered by their desired kinds of content) and to select the content they find personally valuable. Finally, the SSI provides the user an annotated list of the content they selected. Users can keep this list to draw from, build on, or share later on as they wish.

Intervention type: BEHAVIORAL
Group type: EXPERIMENTAL
Intervention: Overcoming loneliness SSI 8-minute version
Description: A shortened version of an online self-guided intervention based on principles of CBT for loneliness. The research team created this intervention by cutting lengthy didactic material and exercises from the 23-minute version, while maintaining its core concepts.