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Trial reportPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2023

A HOPE Online Community Peer Support Intervention for Help Seeking: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Dominic Arjuna Ugarte, William G Cumberland, Parvati Singh, Soheil Saadat, Renee Garett, Sean D Young

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial

In one paragraph

Trial report in Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

Effectiveness of Telehealth Care Interventions for Women's Mental Health During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026
Pooled it
The Competencies and Implementation of Peer Support Interventions for People with Serious Mental Health Challenges: A Systematic Review.Harvard review of psychiatry
Pooled it
Peer-led mentoring intervention for test anxiety reduction among medical students: development, implementation, and prospective evaluation.BMC medical education · 2026
Article
Interventions to improve mental health help-seeking attitudes, intentions and behaviors: A systematic review of recent advances.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026
Review
Maintenance of treatment gains from psychological treatments for chronic pain: what (little) we know, and the urgent need to extend it.Pain · 2025
Article
Mindful Jazz and Preferred Music Interventions Reduce Pain Among Patients With Chronic Pain and Anxiety: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Cureus · 2025
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Dominic Arjuna UgarteDepartment of Emergency Medicine (Ugarte, Saadat, Young) and Department of Informatics (Singh, Young), University of California, Irvine, Irvine; Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Cumberland); ElevateU, Irvine (Garett).

William G CumberlandDepartment of Emergency Medicine (Ugarte, Saadat, Young) and Department of Informatics (Singh, Young), University of California, Irvine, Irvine; Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Cumberland); ElevateU, Irvine (Garett).

Parvati SinghDepartment of Emergency Medicine (Ugarte, Saadat, Young) and Department of Informatics (Singh, Young), University of California, Irvine, Irvine; Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Cumberland); ElevateU, Irvine (Garett).

Soheil SaadatDepartment of Emergency Medicine (Ugarte, Saadat, Young) and Department of Informatics (Singh, Young), University of California, Irvine, Irvine; Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Cumberland); ElevateU, Irvine (Garett).

Renee GarettDepartment of Emergency Medicine (Ugarte, Saadat, Young) and Department of Informatics (Singh, Young), University of California, Irvine, Irvine; Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Cumberland); ElevateU, Irvine (Garett).

Sean D YoungDepartment of Emergency Medicine (Ugarte, Saadat, Young) and Department of Informatics (Singh, Young), University of California, Irvine, Irvine; Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Cumberland); ElevateU, Irvine (Garett).

Funding

Big Data Digital Outreach and Epidemiology Methods for HIV Care among Communities of ColorR01MD018548 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Sean Young · 2022 to 2026

$3.9M

Adapting the HOPE Online Support Intervention to Increase MAT Uptake Among OUD PatientsR33AT010606 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI YOUNG, SEAN · 2020 to 2021

$3.5M

Mining real-time social media big data to monitor HIV: Development and Ethical IssuesR01AI132030 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI YOUNG, SEAN · 2017 to 2020

$3.4M

HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social NetworksR01MH106415 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI YOUNG, SEAN · 2015 to 2019

$2.9M

Opioid Support and Risk Reduction Online PlatformR43DA049606 · NIDA · ELEVATEU · PI GARETT, RENEE · 2021 to 2021

$239k

NCCIH NIH HHS R33 AT010606NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132030NIDA NIH HHS R43 DA049606NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD018548NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106415

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveA 6-week study was conducted to test the effectiveness of the Harnessing Online Peer Education (HOPE) intervention on anxiety, help seeking (requests for electronic resources [e-resources] on anxiety reduction), and online engagement.

methodsThree hundred participants with moderate to severe anxiety (i.e., seven-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale [GAD-7] scores ≥10) were randomly assigned to social media (i.e., Facebook) groups with or without peer leaders. The study was conducted from April 5 to May 17, 2020. GAD-7 scores, e-resource requests, and online engagement were measured at baseline and at weeks 2, 4, and 6.

resultsGAD-7 scores improved in both intervention and control groups, with no difference between conditions. Participants in the intervention group were more likely than those in the control group to request e-resources (OR=10.27, 95% CI=4.52-23.35) and engage online (OR=2.84, 95% CI=1.70-4.76).

conclusionsThe HOPE intervention effectively promoted mental health help-seeking behavior and online engagement.

Indexed as

AnxietyAnxiety DisordersHumansMental HealthPeer GroupAnxiety & anxiety disordersCOVID-19Digital healthOnline communitiesSocial mediaSocial support networks

Identifiers

PMID36377369

DOI10.1176/appi.ps.202000817

PMCPMC10205089

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