Brief Online Interventions to Facilitate Treatment Seeking for Social Anxiety
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 919
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Treatment seeking motivations: Attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety.
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study developed and then compared via randomized trial two brief online interventions targeting increasing treatment-seeking behavior in social anxiety.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •High social anxiety (score >30 on Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) Connor et al., 2000)
- •Fluent in English
- •Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT approval rate > 95%
- •Amazon Mechanical Turk account listed as US resident
Exclusion Criteria
- •Already enrolled in target treatments (i.e. CBT for social anxiety, using social anxiety self-help book, or participating in online treatment for social anxiety)
- •Indicating that they would "never consider" treatment for social anxiety
Arms & Interventions
Psychoeducation
Intervention: Psychoeducation (Behavioral)
Psychoeducation plus Motivation Enhancement
Intervention: Psychoeducation (Behavioral)
Psychoeducation plus Motivation Enhancement
Intervention: Motivation (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Treatment seeking motivations: Attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety.
Time Frame: Change from baseline to one-month follow-up
Affective attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety were assessed using a standard 7-item 1-7 semantic differential scale in which participants rated "seeking treatment for social anxiety in the next month would be" according to opposite adjective pairs (e.g., "Unhealthy"/"Healthy"). Possible scores range from 7-49, with higher scores indicating more favorable attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety.
Treatment seeking motivations: Perceived behavioral control/confidence regarding seeking treatment for social anxiety.
Time Frame: Change from baseline to one-month follow-up
Paralleling the intentions scale above, the present study developed a measure of perceived behavioral control regarding seeking treatment for social anxiety, as the existing literature lacked a sufficient and specific measure. The resulting scale includes 14 total items assessment perceived ability to seek treatment for social anxiety in the following month. Items were rated using Likert scales from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 7 ("strongly agree"), with higher scores indicating greater perceived ability to seek treatment for social anxiety.
Treatment seeking motivations: Intentions to seek treatment for social anxiety.
Time Frame: Change from baseline to one-month follow-up
As the existing literature lacks a sufficient and specific scale for assessing intentions to seek treatment, we developed a scale based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(91)90020-T) as well as crucial steps toward seeking treatment identified previously (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0887-6185(02)00259-1). The resulting scale includes 13 total items assessing intentions to seek treatment for social anxiety in the following month. Items were rated using Likert scales from 1 ("strongly disagree"/"not very likely") to 7 ("strongly agree"/"very likely"), with higher scores indicating greater intention to seek treatment for social anxiety within the following month.
Secondary Outcomes
- Treatment seeking behaviors(One-month follow-up)
Investigators
Joanna Arch
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Colorado, Boulder