Effectiveness of man therapy to reduce suicidal ideation and depression among working-age men: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This randomized controlled trial of the online intervention, man therapy (MT), evaluated efficacy to reduce suicidal ideation (SI) and depression among working-aged men.

Method

Five-hundred and fifty-four men enrolled and 421 completed all surveys. Control Condition men explored the Healthy Men Michigan (HMM) website and Intervention Condition men explored HMM and MT. Hypotheses included men who used MT would report decreased SI and depression over time compared to Control Condition men.

Results

Latent growth curve modeling revealed improvements in SI (slope = -0.23, p < 0.001, 95% CI: -0.29, -0.16) and depression (slope = -0.21, p < 0.001, 95% CI: -0.23, -0.18) over time for men in both groups; however, there was no difference in slope based on group assign

SUBMITTER: Frey JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100179 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature