None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The project is a naturalistic evaluation of the use of the Anxiety Online service by job seeker clients of a vocational rehabilitation provider, Advanced Personnel Management (APM). Clients of APM will be invited to use the Anxiety Online service, which involves initially completing a comprehensive psychological assessment (e-PASS), following which they receive a report which provides them with details as to the type and severity of their anxiety and other mental health problems and appropriate treatment recommendations. If they show symptoms of anxiety consumers have the option of completing a treatment program on their own or with email assistance from a therapist. Programs are available for generalised anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, without or without agoraphobia, post traumatic stress disorder, and social anxiety disorder. In addition, consumers with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder will also have the option to take part in a randomised controlled trial where they will be randomised to complete an online treatment program for OCD with email based assistance from a therapist or to an automated self-help online relaxation program (see also ACTRN12611000321943). Consumers with depression symptoms will be invited to take part in a randomised controlled trial of an online treatment program for depression, where they will be randomised to the automated self-help treatment program or to a self-monitoring wait list control group (see also ACTRN12611000215921).
Interventions
Online treatment programs for Depression and each of the anxiety disorders: Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. Participants can do the program on their own (anxiety and depression programs) or with online assistance from a therapist (anxiety programs only). Programs are based on cognitive behaviour therapy techniques and contain 12 multi-media enriched modules with homework exercises designed to
Online treatment programs for Depression and each of the anxiety disorders: Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. Participants can do the program on their own (anxiety and depression programs) or with online assistance from a therapist (anxiety programs only). Programs are based on cognitive behaviour therapy techniques and contain 12 multi-media enriched modules with homework exercises designed to be completed over 12 weeks. It is anticipated that participants will spend about 30 minutes a week reading through the online module and completing associated offline exercises.
Sponsors
National eTherapy Centre and BPsyC eTherapy Research Unit, Swinburne University
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Individuals must be job seeker clients of Advanced Personnel Management, 18 years of age or older up to 65 years of age and able to access the internet. To be clients of Advanced Personnel Management they will have a physical or mental health disability, injury or health condition impacting on their ability to work.
Exclusion criteria
Under 18, no internet access. For the therapist-assisted programs (but not the fully automated self-help programs) not an Australian resident.
Outcome results
None listed