Digital interventions for depressive symptoms: a randomized clinical trial
Overview
This randomized clinical trial compares an app-based intervention and online group cognitive behavioral therapy against a waiting list control for reducing depressive symptoms in 109 participants. The study reports that only the group CBT condition yielded a statistically significant reduction in anxiety, while both active treatments showed trends toward lowering depression scores. The authors note that high dropout rates and a small final sample size may have influenced these results.
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- Júlio César Bebber (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Bruno Braga Montezano (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Analise de Souza Vivan (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Thyago Antonelli-Salgado (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Kyara Rodrigues de Aguiar (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Aline Zimerman (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Augusto Ossamu Shintani (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Marta Braga Ryff Moreira (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Roberta Dias Campos (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Lidiane Soares Rodrígues (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Guilenne Frisina Zaffari (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Glória Mallmann (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Rafaela Fernandes Pulice (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Victória Chiodelli Senger (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Juliana Rosendo Vargas (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Camila Zimmer (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Mattheus Lucca Batista Silva do Amaral (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), Gabriel Veloso (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Giancarlo Franceschi Dalla Vecchia (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Júlio César Bisognin Lopez (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre), André R. Brunoni (Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo), Francisco Diego Rabelo‐da‐Ponte (King's College London), Ives Cavalcante Passos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Daniela Tusi Braga (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
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- 2025-01-01
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- 10.47626/2237-6089-2024-1006
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@article{allodium:dbb14e54d4c44555,
title = {Digital interventions for depressive symptoms: a randomized clinical trial},
author = {Júlio César Bebber and Bruno Braga Montezano and Analise de Souza Vivan and Thyago Antonelli-Salgado and Kyara Rodrigues de Aguiar and Aline Zimerman and Augusto Ossamu Shintani and Marta Braga Ryff Moreira and Roberta Dias Campos and Lidiane Soares Rodrígues and Guilenne Frisina Zaffari and Glória Mallmann and Rafaela Fernandes Pulice and Victória Chiodelli Senger and Juliana Rosendo Vargas and Camila Zimmer and Mattheus Lucca Batista Silva do Amaral and Gabriel Veloso and Giancarlo Franceschi Dalla Vecchia and Júlio César Bisognin Lopez and André R. Brunoni and Francisco Diego Rabelo‐da‐Ponte and Ives Cavalcante Passos and Daniela Tusi Braga},
year = {2025},
journal = {PubMed Central},
doi = {10.47626/2237-6089-2024-1006},
url = {https://doi.org/10.47626/2237-6089-2024-1006}
}RIS
TY - JOUR TI - Digital interventions for depressive symptoms: a randomized clinical trial AU - Bebber, Júlio César AU - Montezano, Bruno Braga AU - Vivan, Analise de Souza AU - Antonelli-Salgado, Thyago AU - Aguiar, Kyara Rodrigues de AU - Zimerman, Aline AU - Shintani, Augusto Ossamu AU - Moreira, Marta Braga Ryff AU - Campos, Roberta Dias AU - Rodrígues, Lidiane Soares AU - Zaffari, Guilenne Frisina AU - Mallmann, Glória AU - Pulice, Rafaela Fernandes AU - Senger, Victória Chiodelli AU - Vargas, Juliana Rosendo AU - Zimmer, Camila AU - Amaral, Mattheus Lucca Batista Silva do AU - Veloso, Gabriel AU - Vecchia, Giancarlo Franceschi Dalla AU - Lopez, Júlio César Bisognin AU - Brunoni, André R. AU - Rabelo‐da‐Ponte, Francisco Diego AU - Passos, Ives Cavalcante AU - Braga, Daniela Tusi PY - 2025 PB - PubMed Central DO - 10.47626/2237-6089-2024-1006 UR - https://doi.org/10.47626/2237-6089-2024-1006 ER -
APA
Bebber, J. C., Montezano, B. B., Vivan, A. D. S., Antonelli-Salgado, T., Aguiar, K. R. D., Zimerman, A., Shintani, A. O., Moreira, M. B. R., Campos, R. D., Rodrígues, L. S., Zaffari, G. F., Mallmann, G., Pulice, R. F., Senger, V. C., Vargas, J. R., Zimmer, C., Amaral, M. L. B. S. D., Veloso, G., Vecchia, G. F. D., Lopez, J. C. B., Brunoni, A. R., Rabelo‐da‐Ponte, F. D., Passos, I. C., & Braga, D. T. (2025). Digital interventions for depressive symptoms: a randomized clinical trial. PubMed Central. https://doi.org/10.47626/2237-6089-2024-1006
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