NCT01399502

Promotion of Self-help Strategies for Depression

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,736 (actual)
• Sponsor: Orygen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of health promotion emails for depression. It is hypothesised that emails containing self-help advice will improve depression symptoms more than emails containing information about depression.

Detailed description

Depression symptoms are commonly experienced and disrupt day-to-day life. Increasing depression literacy and the use of effective self-help methods could improve depression across the community. The internet is an ideal promotional medium for health messages, because it is often used to search for information about mental health issues, and health messages can be widely disseminated at little cost. An email campaign could be a low-cost approach to improving self-help behavior and knowledge about depression in adults with depression symptoms.

Conditions

• Depressive Disorder
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mood Memo emails	Participants will receive 12 emails over 6 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2011-07-21
• Last updated: 2013-12-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia