ArticleBMC psychiatry2019
Efficacy of an internet-based self-management intervention for depression or dysthymia - a study protocol of an RCT using an active control condition.
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- Active Components in Internet-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized Full Factorial Trial.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of a Guided Web-Based Self-Management Intervention for Depression or Dysthymia: Randomized Controlled Trial With a 12-Month Follow-Up Using an Active Control Condition.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
- Use of Random Forest to Predict Adherence in an Online Intervention for Depression Using Baseline and Early Usage Data: Model Development and Validation on Retrospective Routine Care Log Data.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Empowerment of Italian general practitioners in depression and suicide prevention: the iFightDepression tool, a game changer of the EAAD-Best project.Annals of general psychiatry · 2024Article
- Validation of the German Normalisation Process Theory Measure G-NoMAD: translation, adaptation, and pilot testing.Implementation science communications · 2023Article
- Newly diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis (NISMA)-development of a complex self-management intervention.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- How are guide profession and routine care setting related to adherence and symptom change in iCBT for depression? - an explorative log-data analysis.Internet interventions · 2021Article
- Intervention Use and Symptom Change With Unguided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Log Data Analysis of a Convenience Sample.JMIR mental health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe treatment of major depressive disorder, a highly prevalent disorder associated with pronounced burden, is a large challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. Internet based self-management interventions seem to be a cost effective way to complement the treatment of depressed patients, but the accumulating evidence is mainly based on the comparison to waitlist controls and treatment as usual, which might lead to an overestimation of effects. Furthermore, studies assessing long-term effects and possible negative outcomes are still rare. METHODS/
designThe proposed study evaluates the efficacy of the German version of the iFightDepression® tool in comparison to an active control condition. A total of 360 patients with mild to moderate depressive symptoms are included into a two-armed randomized controlled trial. They receive one of two six week interventions; either the iFightDepression® tool or progressive muscle relaxation serving as the control condition. Both intervention groups receive information material, weekly tasks via the internet and regular phone calls as part of the intervention. The primary outcome is change in depressive symptoms after the intervention period, as measured with the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology. Satisfaction with the program, usability, changes in perceived quality of life, and possible negative effects are assessed as secondary outcomes. DISCUSSION: This study represents the first randomized controlled trial on the iFightDepression® self-management tool in its German version, aiming at efficacy, but also at providing new insights into so far understudied aspects of E-mental health programs, namely the specificity of the treatment effect compared to an active control condition, it's continuity over a time course of 12 months, and possible negative effects of these internet based interventions.
trial registrationInternational trial-registration took place through the "international clinical trials registry platform" (WHO) with the secondary ID 080-15-09032015. German Clinical Trial Registration: DRKS00009323 (DRKS.de, registered on 25 February 2016).
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