Low self-esteem
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Interventional: For both intervention groups (with and without mental health problems): Self-help smartphone app for mental health treatment and mental health crisis protection.
The app "COG
use of standard outpatient care during the intervention period is allowed (treatment as ususal
TAU)
Sponsors
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und PsychotherapieArbeitsgruppe Klinische Neuropsychologie
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Informed consent, age between 18 and 85 years, sufficient level of Polish language, access to the internet and smartphone, willingness to participate in two anonymous online surveys, willingness to participate in the 6-week self-help smartphone app intervention, willingness to use the self-help smartphone app at one' s own responsibility, willingness to leave an anonymous email address for the survey.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria are: acute suicidality (measured with the PHQ-9 item 9, cut-off > 2).
Design outcomes
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcome parameters will include the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Depression Module (PHQ-9) to assess the severity of depressive symptoms (T0 and T1), the global item of the WHOQOL-BREF to measure quality of life (T0 and T1), the Attitude towards Psychological Online Interventions Questionnaire (APOI; T0), and the Patient Expectation and Evaluation of Therapy Questionnaire (PATHEV; T0). At T0, sociodemographic data and psychotherapy experience (self-report) will also be assessed. Individual access to psychotherapeutic treatment (self-report) will be surveyed at the two study time points (T0 and T1). At T1, possible side effects are to be evaluated by the Inventory for the Assessment of Negative Effects of Psychotherapy (INEP), and patient satisfaction is to be assessed by the Questionnaire for the Measurement of Patient Satisfaction (ZUF-8). Further explorations As part of the study, possible changes in the problem areas listed below will also be explored. The scales to be used are indicated in the brackets. Psychotic experience (The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences, CAPE), generalized anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener, GAD-7), chronic pain (German Pain Questionnaire: Deutscher Schmerzfragebogen, DSF), problem gambling (Pathologic Gambling-Modification of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, PG-YBOCS), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-4, OCI-4). | — |
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcome parameter will be the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) measuring self-esteem (T0 and T1) to elicit the expression of self-esteem in the last week (at T0 and T1 after 6 weeks). | — |
Countries
Poland
Contacts
Public ContactSteffen Moritz
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und PsychotherapieArbeitsgruppe Klinische Neuropsychologie
Outcome results
None listed