NCT05449561

Beyond Efficacy- Eliciting Preference for Face-to-face and Internet-based Psychotherapy Among People with Depression

Completed Last updated 13 February 2025

What this trial tests

trial in Depression in 20 participants. Completed in 26 July 2023.

Timeline

26 July 2022

Primary endpoint
26 July 2023

26 July 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Status	Completed
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	20
Start date	26 July 2022
Primary completion	26 July 2023
Estimated completion	26 July 2023
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Conditions studied

• Depression — all drugs for Depression →

Sponsor

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Depression. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The aim of this study is to strengthen the evidence base of clients' preferences of psychotherapy and to close the described literature gaps so as to inform public health resource reallocation and implementation of psychological services.

The investigators aim to address the following research questions:

1. Which psychological service attributes exert the most influence on the service use decisions?
2. Can respondents be represented by latent classes on the basis of similar preference profiles?
3. Which attributes exert the most influence on the service utilization decisions of each latent class?
4. Will people with depression adopt Internet-based psychotherapy considering the long waiting time and high cost of conventional face-to-face psychotherapy?

To systematically address the above questions, specific research objectives are defined as follows:

1. to examine the relative importance of a series of characteristics of psychological services (e.g., delivery modality, waiting time, out-of-pocket service fee, anonymity and referral methods) on the choices of psychological service using DCE.
2. to identify segments of people with depression with different service preferences using latent class model, because the relative weighting of service preferences may vary with demographic (e.g., gender, age, socioeconomic status, depression severity) and psychological characteristics (e.g., help seeking stigma); and
3. since DCEs need to be translated into improved services to be truly useful, and with reference to emerging interest in the development of digital mental health service for people with depression to solve the issue of long waiting time and cost in face-to-face psychotherapy, using a series of statistical simulations, we aim to estimate the percentage of people with depression in each latent class segment who would use psychotherapy with pre-defined treatment attributes packages.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.