Replication: Meaning-centered Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Meaning-centered intervention for individuals who tend to feel down or anxious.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Depression and/or Anxiety Symptoms. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Testing the Efficacy of a Meaning-centered Intervention for Individuals Who Tend to Feel Down or Anxious: a Replication
Overview
Young adults who experience depression and/or anxiety symptoms (i.e., internalizing symptoms) will be randomly allocated to a six-session meaning-centered intervention condition or a waitlist condition. Both conditions receive the same questionnaires at baseline, post assessment (intervention condition: immediately after the final session; waitlist: four weeks after baseline), and follow-up. The researchers hypothesize that a meaning-centered intervention for individuals with internalizing symptoms will increase participants' meaning in life and reduce their internalizing symptoms at post assessment and 4-week follow-up when compared to a waitlist condition.
Detailed description
First-year psychology students at the University of Groningen will be screened for depression and anxiety symptoms. Those with heightened symptoms will be invited via e-mail to participate in the study. After filling out the baseline assessment online, participants will be randomly assigned to either a meaning-centered intervention condition, which will receive a meaning-centered intervention taking place approximately every four days, or a waitlist condition, which will be assigned no task. Participants in the intervention condition will follow six 1-hour online intervention sessions led by a trainer and conduct intervention-related homework assignments. The sessions can be followed in English, Dutch, or German. The intervention aims to increase participants' meaning in life and reduce their internalizing symptoms. Immediately after the final session (i.e. approximately one month after the baseline assessment), participants in the intervention condition will be asked to fill in the post assessment, which includes the same questionnaires as the baseline assessment. Additionally, they will be ask to provide feedback about the intervention regarding session and homework content. Participants in the waitlist control will be asked to complete the post assessment one month after their baseline assessment. One month after the post assessment, participants in both conditions are asked to fill in same set of questionnaires. Waitlist participants are offered to receive the intervention sessions after the study has finished. Participants are compensated with SONA credits. This study will replicate a previous study initially testing the meaning-centered intervention (https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07058181?aggFilters=status:,phase:\&tab=researcher#trial-description).
Interventions
- Behavioral Meaning-centered intervention for individuals who tend to feel down or anxious
* Six 1-hour individual online sessions, approximately every 4 days * Sessions led by a certified trainer based on intervention manual * Four sources of meaning will be explored: personal life story, dealing with life's limitations, creating one's own life, and meaningful experiences * Participants follow intervention using intervention the workbook * Homework assignments designed to deepen participants' experience and reflection on meaning in their daily lives
Primary outcome measures
- Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) [Time frame: Time Frame: at baseline; post (one month after baseline); one-month follow-up (one month after post)]
- Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) [Time frame: Time Frame: at baseline; post (one month after baseline); one-month follow-up (one month after post)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- heightened internalizing symptoms (depression and/or anxiety symptoms) as indicated by PHQ-4 score of 2 or above on either the anxiety or depression subscale
Exclusion criteria
- receiving psychotherapeutic treatment for a depressive or anxiety disorder
- suicidality
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07714954 · PSY-2526-S-0246