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2017-06-02Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2017.05.003
Characteristics of participants in a randomized trial of an Internet intervention for depression (EVIDENT) in comparison to a national sample (DEGS1)
dc.contributor.authorSpäth, Christina
dc.contributor.authorHapke, Ulfert
dc.contributor.authorMaske, Ulrike
dc.contributor.authorSchröder, Johanna
dc.contributor.authorMoritz, Steffen
dc.contributor.authorBerger, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Björn
dc.contributor.authorRose, Matthias
dc.contributor.authorNolte, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorKlein, Jan Philipp
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T20:08:29Z
dc.date.available2018-05-07T20:08:29Z
dc.date.created2017-06-27
dc.date.issued2017-06-02none
dc.identifier.otherhttp://edoc.rki.de/oa/articles/reS4qYEzTNwPw/PDF/23lzoro6Psfw.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/2679
dc.description.abstractBackground: While the efficacy of Internet interventions for depression has been demonstrated in numerous studies, there is concern that the participants in these studies may systematically differ from depressed subjects in the general population. The goal of this study was to compare participants in a large trial of an Internet intervention for depression with a population-based sample that reported depressive symptomatology in the same range of severity. Methodology: The analysis is based on a sample of participants of a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of an Internet intervention for depression in mild to moderate depression (EVIDENT, N = 1013) and a subsample of participants in a representative population-based sample (DEGS1, n = 1978). The DEGS1 subsample was chosen based on the score in the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9, score 5–14) as this was the main inclusion criterion for the EVIDENT study. Both samples were compared with respect to a range of demographic and clinical variables. Results: Compared with the DEGS1 subsample, participants in the EVIDENT sample were significantly more often female (68.6% vs. 56.3%), slightly older (mean age 42.9 vs. 40.4 years), had more often completed highest secondary education (51.3% vs. 22.4%), were clinically more severely affected (moderate depressive symptoms in 62.6% vs. 18.3%) and reported a lower quality of life. Conclusion: These findings indicate that participants in this Internet trial were not just internet savvy young males without significant impairment. Future studies should aim to recruit participants with lower educational status to increase the reach of Internet interventions.eng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
dc.subjectDepressioneng
dc.subjectSubclinical depressioneng
dc.subjectRandomized trialeng
dc.subjectInterventioneng
dc.subjectPopulation-based surveyeng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin
dc.titleCharacteristics of participants in a randomized trial of an Internet intervention for depression (EVIDENT) in comparison to a national sample (DEGS1)
dc.typeperiodicalPart
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0257-10053073
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.invent.2017.05.003
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/2604
local.edoc.container-titleInternet Interventions
local.edoc.fp-subtypeArtikel
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214782917300076
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameElsevier
local.edoc.container-volume9
local.edoc.container-year2017

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