NCT06066697

SOVA Ambassadors Community Setting

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine participant adherence to intervention feasibility and acceptability of intervention, attention control, and implementation strategy.

Detailed description

A 1:1 pilot randomized controlled trial of the SOVA Peer Ambassador Program compared to attention control: brief psychoeducational independent assignments (i.e. reading SOVA articles and responding to open-ended questions without content creation and without peer interaction) (N=40) and evaluate feasibility of implementation strategy.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SOVA Ambassador	The SOVA Ambassador intervention includes: adolescents will have access to the website specifically for adolescents: sova.pitt.edu These anonymous websites aim to: (1) challenge negative health beliefs and increase depression/anxiety knowledge through daily blog posts enhanced with peer commentary; (2) promote social support through online peer interactions; and (3) encourage parent-adolescent mental health communication through same day blog posts with questions for discussion. Participants that receive this intervention will contribute monthly articles and regular comments.
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Reflection	Participant will be given an article from the sova.pitt.edu website and a prompt to write about privately.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-10-25
• Primary completion: 2024-11-22
• Completion: 2024-11-22
• First posted: 2023-10-04
• Last updated: 2026-01-16
• Results posted: 2026-01-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States