Evaluation of a Website to Improve Depression Literacy in Adoldescents

NCT ID: NCT05300217

Last Updated: 2022-07-27

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

79 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-01-04

Study Completion Date

2022-05-02

Brief Summary

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The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of the website "ich bin alles" (https://www.ich-bin-alles.de/) to improve depression literacy (knowledge about depression, which aid the recognition, treatment or prevention of depression) in healthy adolescents. The investigators will examine whether the website improves depression literacy in healthy adolescents aged 12 to 18 years. The investigators will also assess the acceptability of the website among adolescents.

Detailed Description

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Few young people with major depressive disorder seek professional treatment in time. Concerns about social stigma, confidentiality, and limited knowledge about mental health conditions, such as depression, or mental health services are some of the main barriers to seek treatment. To address these problems, we developed an evidence-based website "ich bin alles" (https://www.ich-bin-alles.de/) to improve depression literacy.

To improve depression literacy, the website provides general information about depression as psychiatric disorder in adolescents (e.g., symptoms, causes, course and treatment of depression). Furthermore, the website provides information about self-help strategies for depression and prevention of depression; i.e., strategies for promoting mental health (e.g., reducing stress, doing exercise, undertaking positive activities), which are meant to serve as an addition to professional treatments of depression or to promote mental health in adolescents.

Target groups of the website are adolescents aged 12 to 18 years seeking help for depression, as well as healthy adolescents seeking information about mental health promotion or depression. Easy access to information about depression would make early recognition of depression more likely and engage young people to seek help for depression.

Since the website targets two different groups, the investigators will evaluate the website accordingly:

Target group 1: Adolescents with a major depressive disorder (acute or remitted) Target group 2: Healthy Adolescents (no mental health condition) The current study will focus on target group 2. A study focusing on target group 1 can be found in a separately registered clinical trial on clinicaltrials.gov.

The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of the website "ich bin alles" (https://www.ich-bin-alles.de/) to improve depression literacy in healthy adolescents.

Conditions

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Depressive Disorder Depression in Adolescence

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants are assigned to two intervention groups in parallel for the duration of the study
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Participants are not aware of the assigned intervention group

Study Groups

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Intervention Group 1 - Strategies for promoting mental health

Exposure to information about strategies for promoting mental health

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Strategies for promoting mental health

Intervention Type OTHER

Before starting the intervention, the participants are told that they will be shown parts of a website about depression. The participants are instructed to carefully attend to the website (e.g., to read the text precisely, to hear attentively to the podcasts and images on the website). The time window spent for the reception of each part of the website are fixed.

The participants in this intervention group will only be shown parts of the website regarding strategies for promoting mental health

Intervention Group 2 - General information about depression

Exposure to general information about depression

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

General information about depression

Intervention Type OTHER

Before starting the intervention, the participants are told that they will be shown parts of a website about depression. The participants are instructed to carefully attend to the website (e.g., to read the text precisely, to hear attentively to the podcasts and to view carefully the videos and images on the website). The time window spent for the reception of each part of the website are fixed.

The participants in this intervention group will only be shown parts of the website regarding general information about depression

Interventions

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Strategies for promoting mental health

Before starting the intervention, the participants are told that they will be shown parts of a website about depression. The participants are instructed to carefully attend to the website (e.g., to read the text precisely, to hear attentively to the podcasts and images on the website). The time window spent for the reception of each part of the website are fixed.

The participants in this intervention group will only be shown parts of the website regarding strategies for promoting mental health

Intervention Type OTHER

General information about depression

Before starting the intervention, the participants are told that they will be shown parts of a website about depression. The participants are instructed to carefully attend to the website (e.g., to read the text precisely, to hear attentively to the podcasts and to view carefully the videos and images on the website). The time window spent for the reception of each part of the website are fixed.

The participants in this intervention group will only be shown parts of the website regarding general information about depression

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- Intelligence quotient (IQ) of ≥ 80

Exclusion Criteria

* Current diagnosis of a mental disorder
* Remitted depressive disorder
* Insufficient knowledge of German
Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Prof. Otto Beisheim Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Ludwig-Maximilians - University of Munich

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ellen Greimel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Gerd Schulte-Körne, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich

Locations

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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Site Status

Countries

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Germany

Other Identifiers

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20115_2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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