Cognitive behavioral intervention via a smartphone app for non-professional caregivers with depressive symptoms: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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Título: | Cognitive behavioral intervention via a smartphone app for non-professional caregivers with depressive symptoms: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
Autor/a: | Vázquez González, Fernando Lino Torres Iglesias, Ángela Juana Díaz Fernández, Olga Páramo Fernández, Mario Otero Otero, Patricia Blanco Seoane, Vanessa López Ares, Lara |
Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Clínica e Psicobioloxía Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Evolutiva e da Educación Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psiquiatría, Radioloxía, Saúde Pública, Enfermaría e Medicina |
Palabras chave: | Non-professional caregivers | App | Smartphone | Depression | Prevention | Adherence to the intervention | Study protocol | |
Data: | 2018 |
Editor: | BMC |
Cita bibliográfica: | Vázquez, F.L., Torres, Á., Díaz, O. et al. Cognitive behavioral intervention via a smartphone app for non-professional caregivers with depressive symptoms: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 19, 414 (2018) |
Resumo: | Background Although major depression is a frequent disorder in non-professional caregivers and there are effective psychological interventions to prevent it, caregivers have difficulty accessing them. Interventions for depression applied through an app could improve accessibility; yet, to date, adherence to such interventions has been low. The objectives of this study are to (1) evaluate the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral depression prevention intervention administered through a smartphone app with and without telephone conference calls, (2) analyze the mediators of the change in the incidence of depression and depressive symptoms, and (3) assess adherence and satisfaction with the interventions. Methods A randomized controlled clinical trial will be conducted. Caregivers with elevated symptoms will be randomly assigned to a cognitive behavioral intervention administered by a smartphone app (CBIA) group, a CBIA plus telephone conference calls (TCCs) group (CBIA + TCC), or an attention control group. Each condition will consist of approximately 58 participants. Both interventions will be administered in five modules through a smartphone app and the CBIA + TCC group will receive additional TCCs in group format (four sessions of 30 min each). Trained blind assessors will conduct pre-treatment, post-treatment and follow-up assessments at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months. Discussion This study will provide evidence of the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral intervention to prevent depression in caregivers with elevated depressive symptoms administered through a smartphone app and the impact of feedback applied through conference calls to increase program adherence and efficacy. If the results were favorable, it would mean that we have developed a more effective, accessible, and clinically useful preventive depression intervention than the currently available ones for many present and future caregivers |
Versión do editor: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2793-2 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22198 |
DOI: | 10.1186/s13063-018-2793-2 |
ISSN: | 1745-6215 |
Dereitos: | © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated |
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