Exploring the influence of testimonial source on attitudes towards e-mental health interventions among university students: Four-group randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Electronic mental health services (eMHSs) offer additional options for the dissemination of psychological interventions for university students. Still, many university students are reluctant to use eMHSs. Narrative messages may help increase the awareness and acceptance of quality-approved programs. However, little is known about the usefulness of narrative messages to improve attitudes towards eMHSs. In this experiment, we thus aimed to explore in how far different ways of targeting information to students affect their attitudes towards eMHSs for stress prevention and therapy, and to identify potential determinants of attitude change. N = 451 students (Mean = 32.6 years, SD = 10.2, 75% female, 7% with eMHS experience) were randomly assigned to one of four study arms involving information

SUBMITTER: Apolinario-Hagen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8153476 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature