NCT05768308

Online CBT Intervention for Students With Adjustment Disorder

Effectiveness and Mediators of Change of an Online CBT Intervention for Students With Adjustment Disorder - Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 216 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Warsaw · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of online cognitive-behavioral intervention based on Unified Protocol and mediators of obtained changes among polish students with adjustment disorder. The intervention is fully self-helped and based on Unified Protocol principles. Control conditions contain of online progressive muscle relaxation group and waiting list.

Detailed description

Adjustment problems are highly prevalent among students around the world (Conley et.al., 2013). Unfortunately only half of students in need receive psychological help (Eisenberg et al., 2018). For these reasons, there is a need to develop and evaluate new, more scalable forms of treatment for students with adjustment disorder - such as internet therapeutic programs. Therefore the aim of the present research is to evaluate the effectiveness of online cognitive-behavioural therapy intervention. Mediators of obtained changes will also be evaluated. The present study has a potential for the development of a scalable, well researched treatment option for students experiencing adjustment disorder - internet psychological intervention.

Conditions

• Adjustment Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Internet CBT-UP intervention iCBT-UP	The self-helped internet intervention for students experiencing emotional difficulties, especially adjustment disorder. This intervention is based on transdiagnostic cbt principles - unified protocol (Barlow et al., 2018). It is a modular intervention consisting of six modules teaching different skills of dealing with emotions. Intervention is interactive and contains of video materials, quizes, texts and audio materials.
BEHAVIORAL	Internet Progressive Muscle Realxation Training (iPMR)	Participants from the active control group will receive progressive muscle relaxation training (iPMR) (Bernstein, Borkovec, Hazlett-Stevens, 2000). It is also a modular intervention and, similar to the i-cbt condition, consists of 5 modules. During the intervention, participants learn how to progressively tighten and relax different muscle groups.The first module is planned for two weeks and the rest of them for one week each. Intervention consists of video materials and audio guided relaxations. Participants are encouraged to train these relaxations once a day.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-01
• Primary completion: 2023-05-01
• Completion: 2023-09-01
• First posted: 2023-03-14
• Last updated: 2023-03-21