Therapist-guided and self-guided internet-delivered behavioural activation for adolescents with depression: a randomised feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Access to effective treatments for adolescents with depression needs to improve. Few studies have evaluated behavioural activation (BA) for adolescent depression, and none remotely delivered BA. This study explored the feasibility and acceptability of therapist-guided and self-guided internet-delivered BA (I-BA) in preparation for a future randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Design

A single-blinded randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Setting

A specialist outpatient clinic in Sweden.

Participants

Thirty-two adolescents with mild-to-moderate major depression, aged 13-17 years.

Interventions

Ten weeks of therapist-guided I-BA or self-guided I-BA, or treatment as usual (TAU). Both versions of I-BA included parental support. TAU included referra

SUBMITTER: Grudin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9806095 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature