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Beyond Efficacy- Eliciting Preference for Face-to-face and Internet-based Psychotherapy Among People with Depression

NCT05449561 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2025-02-13

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Summary

The aim of this study is to strengthen the evidence base of clients' preferences of psychotherapy and to close the described literature gaps so as to inform public health resource reallocation and implementation of psychological services.

The investigators aim to address the following research questions:

1. Which psychological service attributes exert the most influence on the service use decisions?
2. Can respondents be represented by latent classes on the basis of similar preference profiles?
3. Which attributes exert the most influence on the service utilization decisions of each latent class?
4. Will people with depression adopt Internet-based psychotherapy considering the long waiting time and high cost of conventional face-to-face psychotherapy?

To systematically address the above questions, specific research objectives are defined as follows:

1. to examine the relative importance of a series of characteristics of psychological services (e.g., delivery modality, waiting time, out-of-pocket service fee, anonymity and referral methods) on the choices of psychological service using DCE.
2. to identify segments of people with depression with different service preferences using latent class model, because the relative weighting of service preferences may vary with demographic (e.g., gender, age, socioeconomic status, depression severity) and psychological characteristics (e.g., help seeking stigma); and
3. since DCEs need to be translated into improved services to be truly useful, and with reference to emerging interest in the development of digital mental health service for people with depression to solve the issue of long waiting time and cost in face-to-face psychotherapy, using a series of statistical simulations, we aim to estimate the percentage of people with depression in each latent class segment who would use psychotherapy with pre-defined treatment attributes packages.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-07-26
Primary Completion
2023-07-26
Completion
2023-07-26

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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