Application of a self-help smartphone app for students with depressive symptoms: a randomized controlled trial
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- F32Depressive episode
- Registration Number
- DRKS00020941
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 386
Inclusion Criteria
inclusion criteria are: Studying at a German university, informed consent, age between 18 and 24 years, having Internet access and a smartphone, willingness to take part in two anonymous online surveys, willingness to participate in the 4-week self-help smartphone app, willingness to use the self-help smartphone app at own risk, willingness to leave an anonymous e-mail address for the survey, presence of depressive symptoms
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria are: acute suicidal tendency and bipolar or psychotic disorder currently or in the past
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 Depression Module (PHQ-9) is used as a primary success parameter to determine the severity of depressive symptoms in the last 2 weeks (at T0 and T1 after 4 weeks).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary success parameters will be a global item of the WHOQOL-BREF for measuring quality of life (T0 and T1), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) for measuring self-esteem (T0 and T1), the Attitude Towards Psychological Online Interventions Questionnaire (APOI; T0) and the Patientenfragebogen zur Therapieerwartung und Therapieevaluation (PATHEV; T0). In addition, sociodemographic data and psychotherapy experience will be recorded for T0. For T1, possible negative side effects will be recorded via the Inventar zur Erfassung negativer Effekte von Psychotherapie (INEP) and patient satisfaction will be recorded via the Fragebogen zur Messung der Patientenzufriedenheit (ZUF-8).