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Overcoming Treatment Barriers

NCT06022432 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 171

Last updated 2025-07-10

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Summary

This study aims to assess whether negative or rather the lack of positive treatment expectations could be positively influenced by online short interventions and increase intention so seek treatment and actual help-seeking behavior when compared to a no-treatment control group. Further, the study investigators like to explore if specifically focusing on intensifying positive treatment expectations vs. a reduction of expectations about negative treatment effects will influence the pattern of results differently.

Conditions

  • Health Care Utilization
  • Health Care Seeking Behavior

Interventions

OTHER

Video of a patients testimonial

The intervention is a prerecorded video of a re-enacted patient-therapist interaction whereby the patient gives a testimonial about the treatment process while either reducing negative expectations or maximizing positive expectations about therapy, respectively.

OTHER

Writing Task

Participants write freely about their current treatment expectations / apprehensions to seek treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-17
Primary Completion
2024-02-15
Completion
2024-06-13

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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