SOVA Ambassadors Community Setting
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine participant adherence to intervention feasibility and acceptability of intervention, attention control, and implementation strategy.
Condition
- Depression
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Between 14 Years and 21 Years
- Eligible Genders
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- Ages 14 to 21 Can read and understand English Has completed 6th grade Scores at least 5 or greater on the PHQ-8 (depression) and/or 5 or greater on GAD-7 (anxiety) consistent with at least mild symptoms
Exclusion Criteria
- no access to internet Has an intellectual or physical ability which prohibits reading text on the internet (can participate if able to use with assistance, e.g. can use text to speech) No active email account (can participate if plans to create one)
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
- Masking Description
- The statistician conducting analyses will be blinded to randomized arm.
Arm Groups
Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
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Experimental SOVA Peer Ambassador Program |
Participants will be given login information for a website sova.pitt.edu. They will be given weekly emails notifications about new posts. The participant will be onboarded as a blogging peer ambassador. The participant will be expected to contribute content to the website at least once a month by 1. writing a blog article 2. sending information (de-identified photo or video or music) to post • If they choose this option they will be encouraged to submit their own photo, video, or music to the website or they will be encouraged to write a response to a photo, video, or music piece. 3. being interviewed by the RA and then the RA "ghostwriting" an article about the interview which they pre-approve prior to it being posted. |
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Active Comparator attention control: brief psychoeducational independent assignments |
Participants will be sent a REDCap form where they will receive a link to a SOVA article to read and a question for them to answer about what they read that will be accessible only to the study team. They will be asked to do this a couple times a month and will be reminded about their participation. |
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Recruiting Locations
More Details
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Detailed Description
A 1:1 pilot randomized controlled trial of the SOVA Peer Ambassador Program compared to attention control: brief psychoeducational independent assignments (i.e. reading SOVA articles and responding to open-ended questions without content creation and without peer interaction) (N=40) and evaluate feasibility of implementation strategy.