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Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: The Turkish population living in the Netherlands has a high prevalence of psychological complaints and has a high threshold for seeking professional help for these problems. Seeking help through the Internet can overcome these barriers. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21047442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-101 |
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author | Ünlü, Burçin Riper, Heleen van Straten, Annemieke Cuijpers, Pim |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Turkish population living in the Netherlands has a high prevalence of psychological complaints and has a high threshold for seeking professional help for these problems. Seeking help through the Internet can overcome these barriers. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a guided self-help problem-solving intervention for depressed Turkish migrants that is culturally adapted and web-based. METHODS: This study is a randomized controlled trial with two arms: an experimental condition group and a wait list control group. The experimental condition obtains direct access to the guided web-based self-help intervention, which is based on Problem Solving Treatment (PST) and takes 6 weeks to complete. Turkish adults with mild to moderate depressive symptoms will be recruited from the general population and the participants can choose between a Turkish and a Dutch version. The primary outcome measure is the reduction of depressive symptoms, the secondary outcome measures are somatic symptoms, anxiety, acculturation, quality of life and satisfaction. Participants are assessed at baseline, post-test (6 weeks), and 4 months after baseline. Analysis will be conducted on the intention-to-treat sample. DISCUSSION: This study evaluates the effectiveness of a guided problem-solving intervention for Turkish adults living in the Netherlands that is culturally adapted and web-based. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Nederlands Trial Register: NTR2303 |
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spelling | pubmed-29899552010-11-23 Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial Ünlü, Burçin Riper, Heleen van Straten, Annemieke Cuijpers, Pim Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: The Turkish population living in the Netherlands has a high prevalence of psychological complaints and has a high threshold for seeking professional help for these problems. Seeking help through the Internet can overcome these barriers. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a guided self-help problem-solving intervention for depressed Turkish migrants that is culturally adapted and web-based. METHODS: This study is a randomized controlled trial with two arms: an experimental condition group and a wait list control group. The experimental condition obtains direct access to the guided web-based self-help intervention, which is based on Problem Solving Treatment (PST) and takes 6 weeks to complete. Turkish adults with mild to moderate depressive symptoms will be recruited from the general population and the participants can choose between a Turkish and a Dutch version. The primary outcome measure is the reduction of depressive symptoms, the secondary outcome measures are somatic symptoms, anxiety, acculturation, quality of life and satisfaction. Participants are assessed at baseline, post-test (6 weeks), and 4 months after baseline. Analysis will be conducted on the intention-to-treat sample. DISCUSSION: This study evaluates the effectiveness of a guided problem-solving intervention for Turkish adults living in the Netherlands that is culturally adapted and web-based. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Nederlands Trial Register: NTR2303 BioMed Central 2010-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2989955/ /pubmed/21047442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-101 Text en Copyright ©2010 Ünlü et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Ünlü, Burçin Riper, Heleen van Straten, Annemieke Cuijpers, Pim Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial |
title | Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial |
title_full | Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial |
title_short | Guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | guided self-help on the internet for turkish migrants with depression: the design of a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21047442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-101 |
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