Clinical trial NCT04643964: Brief Video Interventions for Depression
Official title: Building Mental Health Resilience in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depressive Symptoms
Keywords: Depression
Video intervention
Cognitive behavioral skills
Lead sponsor: Ohio State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-11-25
Enrollment: 655
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) a brief intervention focused on one domain of coping skills (the entrée condition), (2) a brief intervention focused on three domains of coping skills (the sampler condition), or (3) a no-intervention control condition. If participants are randomly assigned to the first condition, they will be further randomized into one of three brief interventions: (1) a focus on cognitive coping skills, (2) a focus on behavioral coping skills, or (3) a focus on interpersonal coping skills. The sampler condition will involve limited coverage of each of these same three types of skills.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Score above 10 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9
* Are 18 years of age or older

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Self Report (QIDS-SR)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1-2 weeks after baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in the Ways of Responding Questionnaire (WOR)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1-2 weeks after baseline
measure: Change in the Styles of Emotion Response Questionnaire (SERQ)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1-2 weeks after baseline
measure: Change in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale, Version 3
timeFrame: Baseline, 1-2 weeks after baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Columbus
country: United States
facility: Department of Psychology
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Ohio State University
name: Daniel R Strunk, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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