NCT03047512

Pilot Study of an Internet-based Program for Prevention and Early Intervention of Adolescent Depression

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 213 (actual)
• Sponsor: CES University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Major depression is a highly prevalent and severe mental disease that negatively alters the lives of people, their families, and their social environment. Organizations that promote mental health policies have recognized the potential of new information technologies for the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. In this direction, information and communication technologies (ICTs) generate opportunities for increasing patient well-being through the use of on-line software. Such programs often include interactivity, self-monitoring, information materials (sometimes in multimedia format), and exercises on problem solving, recognition and challenging of dysfunctional thoughts, scheduling of activities, behavioral experiments, and other psycho-educational activities. In Colombia, there are few preventive mental health interventions scientifically oriented and seeking to demonstrate efficacy in context. The purpose of this study is to determine whether an internet-based program is effective to prevent and to intervene early the depression in adolescents between 11 and 20 years of age in 2 schools in the Antioquia Region, Colombia.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental: Internet-based program	* Adolescents who obtain a score between 2 and 4 on the PHQ-3 will be invited to use the information module, the psychoeducational material and the symptom monitoring with personalized automatic feedback. * Adolescents who obtain a score between 5 and 6 on the PHQ-3 will be invited to use, in addition to the above, group forum activities (peer support moderated by mental health professionals) and the possibility of a chat (individualized support by mental health professionals). * Adolescents who obtain a score greater than 6 on the PHQ-3 or that have suicidal thoughts will be invited to see the mental health counselor of the institution and the possibility of their reference to face-to-face professional attention will be considered.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-20
• Primary completion: 2018-05-08
• Completion: 2018-09-01
• First posted: 2017-02-09
• Last updated: 2018-05-31

Locations

8 sites across 1 country: Colombia