Internet-Based Depression Screening for College Students
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 1,900
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study aims to determine whether using telecommunication tools, specifically web pages containing online screening instruments and real-time video chat, will be an efficient way to implement Major Depressive Disorder screening among college students. The study also aims to determine if proactive depression screening and free online consultation with a psychiatrist will increase the rate of help-seeking among college students with MDD.
Eligible participants will complete a demographics survey and depression screening assessment online. Those subjects who express suicidality or depressive symptoms will be offered the opportunity to complete a one-time psychiatric consultation with Skype video-conferencing.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Screening
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •All who consider themselves current undergraduate from Massachusetts colleges are encouraged to participate.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
9-item Patient Health Questionnaire
Time Frame: Baseline, Week 8
Subjects are given the PHQ-9 at baseline, and a 8-week follow-up survey that includes PHQ-9 and questions inquiring whether subject has begun treatment for MDD and whether they faced obstacles in seeking treatment.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Albert Yeung
Albert Yeung, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital