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Technology-enhanced Therapy: the SilverCloud Study

NCT01498107 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2014-01-08

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Summary

This pilot study investigates a new platform for supporting online interventions for common mental health problems called SilverCloud. It was developed from insights into interactive system design to address the problem of high attrition rates and poor engagement with online interventions. Through a range of methods, the study considers the role of four design strategies in engaging users in cognitive behavioural therapy. A service-based study, it concentrates on a clinical population with mild or moderate depression. Clinical outcome measures will be taken pre and post intervention use; demographic data of who did and did not choose the intervention collected, patterns of usage will be extracted from the log data and analysed; and qualitative interviews will be done to understand the relationship between patterns of usage and levels of engagement. The findings will be used to inform further developments of this and other online interventions and contribute to the development of methods for assessing online interventions.

The objectives of the pilot study are:

* To evaluate engagement with the online intervention in a realistic primary mental health care setting
* Assess engagement from multiple perspectives, including clinical efficacy and interaction design
* Contribute to further development of the online intervention
* Support preparation for a full-scale clinical trial

Research questions include:

* Does the online intervention decrease symptoms of depression?
* Who chooses to use the online intervention?
* What are the patterns of use of the online intervention?
* How successful are the four design principles, personal, interactive, supportive and social, in supporting engagement?

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SilverCloud Platform

The SilverCloud online intervention will be provided as an alternative choice to paper manuals to support guided self-help for depression in a primary care mental health service. Participants will receive up to eight progress reviews on a weekly or fortnightly basis as agreed with their therapist with the intervention running not more than three months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Cambridge

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cecily Morrison, PhD · University of Cambridge

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-07-31
Completion
2012-10-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

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