Treatment Satisfaction
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of an internet-based self help program concerning satisfaction with the treatment and their life, depression and anxiety. Both study groups get access to the internet-based self-help program. The intervention group receives additional feedback to their progress in the program from an online therapist. The investigators hypothesize that (1) at least 75% of the patients in the intervention group are satisfied or very satisfied with the self-help program, (2) 50% of the patients in the intervention group work with all eight units and (3) patients of the intervention group have a higher emotional competence than the patients of the control group at the end of the self-help program.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALself-help program
Access to the internet-based self-help program
BEHAVIORALtherapeutic feedback
Therapeutic feedback on the written information sent to the online therapist
Sponsors
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* day care/ inpatient treatment in the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz * minimum age of 18 years * private internet access * e-mail address
Exclusion criteria
* acute suicidality * psychosis * current alcohol or drug addiction * life time diagnosis of a schizophrenic, schizoaffective, bipolar or organic psychic disorder
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Satisfaction of the intervention group with the internet-based self-help program measured with an reworded version of the patient satisfaction questionnaire (ZUF-8) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Subjective prognosis of work ability measured with the SPE (Subjective Prognosis of Work Ability) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
| Therapeutic alliance measured with the German version of the WAI-SR (Working Alliance Inventory - Short Revised) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) |
| Anxiety measured with the German version of the GAD-7 (General Anxiety Disorder Screener) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
| Self-esteem measured with the German version of the RSE (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
| Emotional competence measured with the SEK-27 (questionnaire for self-assessment of emotional competence) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
| Somatoform afflictions measured with the German version of the SSS-8 (Somatic Symptom Scale) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
| Quality of life measured with the German version of the EUROHIS-QOL 8 (European Health Interview Survey Quality of Life 8) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
| Depersonalisation measured with the German short version of the CDS-2 (Cambridge Depersonalisation Scale) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
| Acceptance of the internet-based self-help program measured with an especially for the self-help program devised questionnaire | End of every unit (weekly) and 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) |
| Usage of the internet-based self-help program measured with an especially for the self-help program devised questionnaire | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) |
| Utilization of alternative after care measures (psychotherapy and drugs) with a self-devised questionnaire | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) |
| Depression measured with the German version of the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire) | 10 weeks after study inclusion (T1) and 19 weeks after study inclusion (T2) |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed