Effectiveness of internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (iCBT) in reducing sickness absence among young employees with depressive symptoms

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Mild depressive symptoms (score =9 on the Beck Depression Inventory-IA); Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN10877837
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Helsinki

Brief Summary

2019 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31690647 protocol (added 08/11/2019)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-03-08
• Last Update Posted: 1 November 2021
• Study Completion: 2024-08-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Stopped
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 580

Inclusion Criteria

Current participant inclusion criteria as of 04/03/2020:
1. Visiting a nurse at Occupational Health Helsinki
2. Being 18- to-34 years old at the time of recruitment
3. Continuously employed by the City of Helsinki for at least 6 months before recruitment
4. Score = 9 on the Beck Depression Inventory-IA (BDI-IA)

Previous participant inclusion criteria from 04/06/2019 to 04/03/2020:
1. Visiting a nurse at Occupational Health Helsinki
2. Being 18- to-34 years old at the time of recruitment
3. Continuously employed by the City of Helsinki for at least 6 months before recruitment
4. Score = 9 on the Beck Depression Inventory 21

Previous participant inclusion criteria:
1. Visiting an Occupational Health nurse
2. Being 18- to-34 years old at the time of recruitment
3. Continuously employed by the City of Helsinki for at least 4 months before recruitment
4. Score = 9 on the Beck Depression Inventory 21

Exclusion Criteria

Current participant exclusion criteria as of 04/03/2020:
1. Current high risk for suicide
2. Psychiatric co-morbidity: substance dependence, bipolar affective disorder, psychotic illness, obsessive-compulsive disorder, personality disorder
3. Not able to read Finnish (the intervention is only available in Finnish)

Previous participant exclusion criteria:
1. Current high risk for suicide
2. Psychiatric co-morbidity: substance dependence, bipolar affective disorder, psychotic illness, obsessive-compulsive disorder
3. Not able to read Finnish, Swedish or English well (the intervention is only available in these languages)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Participants’ all-cause sickness absence (cumulative length of sickness absence in days) measured from the employer’s and national administrative records up to 6 months from study entry