Depression / depressed mood Mental and Behavioural Disorders Depression
Conditions
Interventions
Emotion recognition training versus control.
This is a computer-based intervention which presents faces on a sad to happy morph sequence. Participants have to judge the emotion of the face presented.
Sponsors
University of Bristol (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Participants will be undergraduate students from the University of Bristol who are identified as showing higher than average levels of negative mood by scoring 14 or more on the Beck Depression Inventory ii (BDI-ii) via an online baseline screening questionnaire. 2. We anticipate that we will also identify students who have a history of depression. We will not be excluding these participants, but their data will be collected for secondary analysis. 3. Participants will be required to have normal or corrected-to-normal vision.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. A score lower than 14 on the BDI-ii, 2. Current use of any illicit drugs (except cannabis) 3. Under 18 years of age or over 40 years of age
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Beck Depression Inventory ii (BDI-ii) score- Beck, A.T., Steer, R.A., & Brown, G.K. (1996), Manual for Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). San Antonio, TX, Psychology Corporation. Outcomes are measured immediately after the training week, at one-week follow-up and at two-week follow-up. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) score: Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 1063-1070. Outcomes are measured immediately after the training week, at one-week follow-up and at two-week follow-up. | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed