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| Name | Class |
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| University of California, Berkeley | OTHER |
| United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation | OTHER |
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This is a two-site randomized controlled trial, with two goals. First, the investigators aim to demonstrate that single-session interventions for mild-to-moderate anxiety and depression can generate statistically significant symptom change as a main effect across control and experimental (i.e. personalized) conditions. Second, the investigators hope to establish the additional incremental efficacy of personalization via person-specific intensive longitudinal data collection and analysis.
This is a two-site randomized controlled trial, with two goals. First, the investigators aim to demonstrate that single-session interventions for mild-to-moderate anxiety and depression can generate statistically significant symptom change as a main effect across control and experimental (i.e. personalized) conditions. Second, the investigators hope to establish the additional incremental efficacy of personalization via person-specific intensive longitudinal data collection and analysis.
All single-session interventions will be 90-minutes in length. At the conclusion of the intervention session, participants will receive suggestions for daily homework practice to complete and a flash drive with a copy of their session audio to review at their discretion. Participants will also meet with the therapist for a 10-minute remote check-in two weeks following the single session.
All interventions include standard psychoeducational components. Participants randomized to the personalization arm of the study will be given an intervention matched to their most pressing psychosocial need. Participants randomized to the control condition will receive a standard intervention (at the UCB site) or a randomly selected one (at the BIU site). Both the standard intervention and the specific ones were designed to be broadly efficacious for depression and anxiety symptomatology.
The psychosocial needs which serve as the focus of the interventions are derived from motivation and affect regulation models and include emotional stability, predictability, acceptance, competence, self-esteem, autonomy, and pleasure. The primary unmet need for each individual will be determined by a conditional entropy algorithm. Simply, the presence versus absence of subjective distress will be measured eight times per day for 30 days. Concurrently, the presence versus absence of need frustration will also be measured eight times per day for 30 days. Utilizing a k-fold cross-validated estimation, conditional entropy will be used to determine the need that best reduces the uncertainty in subjective distress (that is, best explains its presentation probabilistically).
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Personalized Intervention | Experimental | The intervention approach taken in this RCT is focused on unmet psychological needs (predictability, belonging, competence, self-worth, autonomy, and playfulness). For each need, a specific 90-minute intervention has been developed. The primary unmet need for each individual will be determined by a conditional entropy algorithm. Simply, the presence versus absence of subjective distress will be measured eight times per day for 30 days. Concurrently, the presence versus absence of need frustration will also be measured eight times per day for 30 days. Utilizing a k-fold cross-validated estimation, conditional entropy will be used to determine the need that best reduces the uncertainty in subjective distress (that is, best explains its presentation probabilistically). At both sites, the experimental condition will consist of an algorithmically-chosen intervention. The choice will be made based on data collected during thirty days of ecological momentary assessment. |
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| Non-personalized Intervention | Active Comparator | The intervention approach taken in this RCT is focused on unmet psychological needs (predictability, belonging, competence, self-worth, autonomy, and playfulness). For each need, a specific 90-minute intervention has been developed. At the BIU site, the active control condition will consist of an intervention chosen randomly (out of the six mentioned above). At the UCB site, the active control condition will consist of a standard intervention addressing emotion regulation difficulties. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Clinician-administered Need-focused Single Session Intervention | Behavioral | All single-session interventions will be 90-minutes in length. At the conclusion of the intervention session, participants will receive suggestions for daily homework practice to complete and a flash drive with a copy of their session audio to review at their discretion. They will also meet with the therapist for a 10-minute remote check-in two weeks following the single session. All interventions include standard psychoeducational components. Both the standard intervention and the specific ones were designed to be broadly efficacious for depression and anxiety symptomatology. The psychosocial needs which serve as the focus of the interventions are derived from motivation and affect regulation models. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Hamilton-Depression Rating Scale | (Range 0-52, higher scores denote greater depression) | Change between pre-intervention and 1 month post-intervention |
| Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale | (Range 0-60, higher scores denote greater depression) | Change between pre-intervention and 1 month post-intervention |
| Hamilton-Anxiety Rating Scale | (Range 0-56, higher scores denote greater anxiety); will be used in lieu of Hamilton-Depression ratings for individuals whose Hamilton-Anxiety scores are higher than their Hamilton-Depression scores. | Change between pre-intervention and 1 month post-intervention |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| PHQ-8 | (Range 0-24, higher scores denote greater depression) | Immediately prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| GAD-7 | (Range 0-21, higher scores denote greater anxiety) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| PANAS | Positive and negative affect schedule (20 items) | Up to six weeks prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| ERQ | Emotion Regulation Questionnaire |
Inclusion Criterion.
* a score of 5 or above on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD).
Exclusion Criteria based on Diagnostic Interview for DSM-5 Anxiety, Mood, and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (DIAMOND).
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Eshkol Rafaeli, PhD | Contact | +972-3-7384660 | eshkol.rafaeli@gmail.com | |
| Gal Lazarus, PhD | Contact | gal.lazarus@gmail.com |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of California, Berkeley | Recruiting | Berkeley | California | 94720 | United States |
De-identified data will be made available through the osf.io platform or similar platforms.
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Randomized Control Trial with 2 conditions: Experimental condition (personalized-selected intervention) and control condition (randomly-selected or standard intervention focused on emotion-regulation).
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The participants and any care provider and study personnel who interact with them will be blind to condition. The PI will utilize a randomization table to allocate participants to condition, and will inform the front-line study personnel and through them, the care provider, regarding which intervention to use without specifying whether it was personalized or randomly-chosen. The outcomes assessor will be blind even to the type of intervention utilized.
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| Immediately prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| DASS | (Range 0-63, higher scores denote greater depression, anxiety, and stress) | Immediately prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| Up to six weeks prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| DERS-18 | Difficulties in Emotion Regulation | Up to six weeks prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| PSQI | Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index | Up to six weeks prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| IIP-32 | Inventory of Interpersonal Problems | Up to six weeks prior to intervention, and again at 1 and 3 months post-intervention |
| Bar-Ilan University | Recruiting | Ramat Gan | 52900 | Israel |
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