NCT07373080

Brief Culturally Adapted Behavioral Activation Therapy for Adults With Depression in Rural Indonesian Primary Care: A Type-2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial

Hybrid Type-2 Effectiveness-Implementation Study of Brief Culturally Adapted Behavioral Activation Therapy Delivered by Primary Care Psychologists for Adults With Depression in Rural Indonesian Primary Care Setting: A Study Protocol of Pragmatic Parallel Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Gadjah Mada University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a type-2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of brief culturally adapted behavioral activation for adults with depression in primary care setting. This clinical trial has two parallel aims: 1) to understand if brief culturally adapted behavioral activation therapy delivered by psychologist in primary care in individual face-to-face session is effective to reduce depressive symptoms among adult patients in Primary Healthcare Centers and 2) to test the outcome of clinical training and supervision on acceptability, feasibility, appropriateness, and fidelity of implementation of brief culturally adapted behavioral activation therapy in Primary Healthcare Centers. The main questions it aims to answer is: 1\) Is brief culturally adapted behavioral activation intervention delivered by primary care psychologist effective in reducing depressive symptoms among adult patients with depression in primary care settings and 2) Are training and supervision effective in enhancing acceptability, feasibility, appropriateness and fidelity of implementation of brief culturally adapted behavioral activation therapy for adults with depression in primary care settings?

Detailed description

Depression is among global burden of diseases with higher treatment gap in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including Indonesia. Integrating mental health care into primary care is one of recommended strategy to close the treatment gap in LMICs and there has been such integration through the placement of primary care psychologist in one of rural districts in Indonesia. In the other hand, behavioral activation therapy (BAT) is a culturally adaptable evidence-based therapy for adults with depression. However, little is known about implementation strategy to enhance the adoption of BAT as well as its clinical effectiveness in Indonesian primary care. This study aims to: 1) test clinical effectiveness of BAT with prior systematic cultural adaptation in reducing depressive symptoms among adults with depression in primary care and 2) test the effect of implementation strategies (i.e., training and supervision) on implementation outcomes (i.e., acceptability, feasibility, appropriateness, and fidelity). The results of this study will inform further study to scale up BAT implementation in Indonesian primary care settings.

Conditions

• Depression in Adults

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Training and supervisionon BAT	Implementation strategy: Training and Supervision Training: Primary care psychologists will receive training which consists of 4-session online training of Behavioral Activation Therapy (BAT), 2-session of booster training focusing on BA principle and therapy protocol, and clinical practice with 2 participants during pilot study. Four-session online training, 1 booster session, and clinical practice with 2 participants have been delivered during pilot study phase. Supervision: Supervision will be provided during BAT implementation in two forms: 1) biweekly synchronous online supervision, starting from week 3 after the first day of recruitment and 2) asynchronous online supervision through online shared spreadsheet, available throughout BAT implementation. Participants in BAT implementation arm will receive 3 individual face-to-face sessions of Brief Culturally Adapted Behavioral Activation Therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-02-09
• Primary completion: 2026-04-04
• Completion: 2026-05-02
• First posted: 2026-01-28
• Last updated: 2026-01-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Indonesia