NCT02861755

Online Positive Emotion Skills Intervention for Symptoms of Depression

Online Positive Emotion Skills Intervention for Symptoms of Depression (MARIGOLD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 677 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

• Depression
• Psychological Stress
• Affect

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2018-08-01
• Completion: 2018-08-01
• First posted: 2016-08-10
• Last updated: 2023-10-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States