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Testing e-Mental Health in Lebanon

NCT03720769 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1248

Last updated 2021-04-29

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Summary

The study objective is to test a guided e-mental health intervention called Step-by-Step for people living in Lebanon. Step-by-Step is a self-help programme delivered through an app or website and aims to treat symptoms of depression and other symptoms of psychological distress. First, a small study will be conducted to test the research procedure. Second, a large study will be conducted to test the effectiveness of Step-by-Step.

People residing in Lebanon (i.e. Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrian displaced people), above the age of 18 with symptoms of depression will be recruited through social media, posters, radio and television adverts, etc. Minors (under the age of 18) and people who have plans to end their life will be excluded from the study.

To test whether the use of Step-by-Step improves symptoms of depression, two groups will be compared. Participants in the intervention group will receive Step-by-Step, while those in the control group will receive basic information about depression and a list of health centres where they can get face-to-face help that is based on evidence. In addition, participants in the intervention group will receive weekly phone or chat support (up to 15 minutes) provided through lay helpers who were trained and work under the supervision of a trained clinical psychologist. The study hypothesises that participants who receive Step-by-Step will have a higher symptom improvement than participants who receive basic information.

In order to assess symptoms of depression and other symptoms of psychological distress, participants in this study will complete several questionnaires three times: At the beginning of the study, after 8 weeks, and then three months later (i.e. 5 months after the beginning of the study).

Conditions

  • Depression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Step-by-Step

Guided self-help programme delivered through an app/website for the treatment of depression

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced care as usual

Psychoeducation and information about where to get help (i.e., mhGAP trained primary health care centres)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • World Health Organization

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Freie Universität Berlin

    collaborator OTHER

  • VU University of Amsterdam

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pim Cuijpers, Professor · VU Amsterdam

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-09
Primary Completion
2020-09-16
Completion
2020-12-20

Countries

  • Lebanon

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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