NCT04634903

Testing Scalable, Single-Session Interventions for Adolescent Depression in the Context of COVID-19

Comparing Two Online Single-Session Interventions for Adolescent Depression: Outcomes of a Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,452 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stony Brook University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Most mental health problems emerge by age 14, often leading to chronic impairments and adverse impacts for individuals, families, and societies. Any action-focused path to reducing the need-to-access gap will require moving beyond the dominant settings, formats, and systems that have constrained intervention delivery to date. In a fully-online trial, youths ages 13-16 will be randomized to 1 of 3 self-administered single-session interventions (SSIs): a behavioral activation SSI, targeting behavioral MD symptoms; an SSI teaching growth mindset, targeting cognitive MD symptoms; or a control SSI. The investigators will test each SSI's relative benefits, versus the control, on depressive symptoms and proximal outcomes such as hopelessness. Results will reveal whether SSIs that were designed to address behavioral versus cognitive symptoms differentially benefit adolescents with elevated depressive symptoms.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Supportive Therapy SSI	Online, 30-minute self-administered program for youth
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Activation SSI	Online, 30-minute self-administered program for youth
BEHAVIORAL	Growth Mindset SSI	Online, 30-minute self-administered program for youth

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-19
• Primary completion: 2021-03-15
• Completion: 2021-03-15
• First posted: 2020-11-18
• Last updated: 2021-05-25
• Results posted: 2021-05-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States