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Online Positive Emotion Skills Intervention for Symptoms of Depression

NCT02861755 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 677

Last updated 2023-10-27

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Summary

Major depressive disorder affects over 120 million people worldwide. Only 50% of Americans with depression receive adequate treatment, and one-third of those receiving treatment do not benefit. In this pilot project investigators will bring together two approaches that have the promise to reach large numbers of depression sufferers: a skills-based intervention for increasing positive affect and experiences in depressed individuals, delivered in an inexpensive self-paced mobile format. The study will make use of smartphone technology to improve conventional outcome measurement via in-the-moment emotion sampling and mobile assessment of heart rate variability, a predictor of cardiac health that may mediate some of the health effects of depression. The aims are: 1) Retool the existing web-based positive emotion intervention for use on smartphones, with innovative exercises that help participants bring the skills they are learning into real-life situations; 2) Perform a small feasibility trial of the mobile intervention on individuals with clinical depression recruited online 3) Eventually incorporate feedback from the small feasibility trial to improve the online intervention and conduct a full randomized trial on a larger scale

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Positive Affect Skills Training

Blend of enhancements may include: 5-minutes of facilitator contact, an online discussion board, or gamification via virtual flower badges.

BEHAVIORAL

5-week Emotion Reporting

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Judith T Moskowitz, PhD, MPH · Northwestern University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2018-08-31
Completion
2018-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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