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Disseminating a Waitlist Treatment for Anxiety With Velibra

NCT03913676 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 11

Last updated 2020-11-12

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Summary

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a gold standard treatment for a wide spectrum of anxiety-related concerns. However, long waitlist times can serve as a substantial barrier to those seeking treatment. Internet delivered psychotherapy, such as internet-based CBT (I-CBT) may present an affordable option for disseminating empirically supported treatments. Velibra, an web-based I-CBT intervention, has shown initial promise in treating anxiety disorders.

Velibra has been used to treat anxiety-related disorders in European samples with participants recruited from general practitioner's offices and diagnosed with a specific subset of anxiety disorders. While these effects are encouraging, additional research is needed toevaluate whether Velibra could be implemented in a community mental health clinic in the U.S. Specifically, if Velibra could be successfully implemented within the context of mental health clinic waitlists, it may be capable of providing evidence-based treatment to larger groups of people at a faster rate than mental health clinics can structurally support.

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of implementing Velibra into an American community clinic waitlist. We plan to offer free access to the Velibra program to members of the Anxiety and Stress Clinic (ASC) waitlist at the University of Texas at Austin experiencing anxiety. We will evaluate interest in the program, user data from the program, and opinions of the program post-completion. We hypothesize ASC patients will find utility in Velibra's ability to offer them mental health resources faster than the traditional waitlist can provide.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Velibra

Velibra is grounded in a cognitive-behavioral theoretical orientation and consists of six treatment modules representing different skills and therapeutic techniques. Each of the first five modules is followed by a "training session", and contains activities related to training attention biases (CBM-I). All sessions plus trainings are designed to be completed in 1 - 2 hours, depending on the user's reading speed, interest, motivation, and individual path through the program. The modules cover a variety of therapeutic content that is broadly consistent with a cognitive-behavioral perspective. The modules' content draws from therapeutic strategies: (1) Cognitive Modification, (2) Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Relaxation techniques (4) Exposure, (5) Interpersonal Skills, (6) Psychoeducation and Relapse Prevention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas at Austin

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jasper A.J. Smits, Ph.D. · University of Texas at Austin

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-11-05
Primary Completion
2020-03-02
Completion
2020-03-02

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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