None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This study aims to examine whether feedback regarding mental health symptoms encourages increased help-seeking or service use. The research group will be initially running a national survey of an estimated 105,000 people. The survey will contain screening questionnaires for common mental health issues. At the end of this survey, participants will be asked whether they would like to be included in a randomised controlled trial (RCT). If yes, participants will be asked to provide their email addresses only. The national survey (already completed by participants) will serve as baseline data. They will then be randomised into one of two conditions: 'Feedback' or 'No Feedback' (control condition). Those who are randomised into the 'Feedback' condition will immediately be provided with feedback regarding their mental health symptomology, based on screening results . All RCT participants will then be assessed in a post-intervention survey, 3 months after the initial survey regarding their help-seeking or service use for mental health problems, quality of life, disability (days out of role) and mental health symptoms.
Interventions
Participants from a larger validation study of mental health screening questionnaires will also be able to opt in to a low-intensity randomised controlled trial providing feedback about their symptoms. In the trial, participants will get feedback about their symptoms (intervention condition) or general feedback about symptoms in the population (control condition). This feedback will be for either depression symptoms, adult ADHD, or social phobia, depending on which screener is presented in the l
Participants from a larger validation study of mental health screening questionnaires will also be able to opt in to a low-intensity randomised controlled trial providing feedback about their symptoms. In the trial, participants will get feedback about their symptoms (intervention condition) or general feedback about symptoms in the population (control condition). This feedback will be for either depression symptoms, adult ADHD, or social phobia, depending on which screener is presented in the larger validation study. The feedback will be provided to the participants in the intervention online on a single screen. Prior to the feedback, participants will complete a brief set of questions on quality of life and service use. Following the feedback, participants will then complete another brief survey 3 months later. Respondents who choose to participate in the trial will only be identifiable through their provision of an email address.
Sponsors
The Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Diagnosis
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
All participants who opt-in for participation by providing their email address. These participants will be from a larger national validation study of mental health screening questionnaires.
Exclusion criteria
No exclusion criteria
Outcome results
None listed