NCT03807154

Guided Online Self-help for Loneliness

SOLUS - A Randomized Controlled Two-site Trial Comparing Internet-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Internet-based Interpersonal Psychotherapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 170 (actual)
• Sponsor: Linkoeping University · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study seeks to investigate the efficacy of two internet-based self-help programmes administered with support from a therapist. The two active conditions consist of an internet cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) programme and a intervention of internet-based interpersonal psychotherapy (IIPT), both of which have been developed for the present study. The active conditions will be compared to a wait-list control group. Participants will be recruited in Sweden with a nationwide recruitment.

Conditions

• Loneliness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ICBT	A nine week long ICBT-programme with therapist guidance. Based on cognitive and behavioral techniques that have been tailored to address loneliness.
BEHAVIORAL	IPT	A nine week long internet-based IPT-programme with therapist guidance. Contains three distinct phases: assessment phase (three weeks), focus phase (five weeks, during which the participants will choose from one of four primary problem areas during the three latter weeks), and end phase (one week).

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-17
• Primary completion: 2022-02-01
• Completion: 2022-02-01
• First posted: 2019-01-16
• Last updated: 2022-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden