NCT04870099

Guided Self-help for Common Mental Disorders

Leveraging Computational Social Sciences and Natural Language Processing to Optimize Engagement and Response to Low-intensity CBT for Depression and Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 141 (actual)
• Sponsor: Indiana University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Common mental disorders (CMDs) like depression and anxiety account for a large proportion of disability worldwide. Access to effective treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is limited and has not reduced the public health burden of psychopathology. For patients with mild-moderate CMDs, lower-intensity treatments like guided self-help CBT (GSH-CBT) are effective and more scalable (e.g., via the internet). The advent of social media has opened avenues for dissemination of GSH-CBTs and allows for passive sensing of mood, thinking, behavior, and social networks. We propose to leverage a social media platform used by over a fifth of the United States (Twitter) as a recruitment tool to virtually screen over 150 individuals, recruit N=60 to a 5-week course of GSH-CBT, and extract social media data from individuals engaged in GSH-CBT. Sociodemographic and social media data will be used to predict engagement, outcomes, and processes in GSH-CBT.

Conditions

• Bibliotherapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide	From the WHO's website: Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide is a stress management guide for coping with adversity. The guide aims to equip people with practical skills to help cope with stress. A few minutes each day are enough to practice the self-help techniques. The guide can be used alone or with the accompanying audio exercises. Informed by evidence and extensive field testing, the guide is for anyone who experiences stress, wherever they live and whatever their circumstances.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-17
• Primary completion: 2022-02-21
• Completion: 2022-05-21
• First posted: 2021-05-03
• Last updated: 2025-08-03
• Results posted: 2023-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States