The Effect of Predicted Compliance With a Web-Based Intervention for Anxiety and Depression Among Latin American University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (wb-CBT) is a scalable way to reach distressed university students. Guided wb-CBT is typically superior to self-guided wb-CBT over short follow-up periods, but evidence is less clear over longer periods.

Objective

This study aimed to compare short-term (3 months) and longer-term (12 months) aggregate effects of guided and self-guided wb-CBT versus treatment as usual (TAU) in a randomized controlled trial of Colombian and Mexican university students and carry out an initially unplanned secondary analysis of the role of differential predicted compliance in explaining these differences.

Methods

The 1319 participants, recruited either through email and social media outreach invitations or from waiting lists of campus menta

SUBMITTER: Benjet C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11909483 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature