Mental Health Pathways in Internet Support Groups
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Official title
Internet Support Groups: Identifying and Improving Pathways for Mental Health
Brief summary
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People facing serious health threats increasingly use Internet health support communities to obtain informational support, emotional support and other resources. This study introduces software algorithms similar to those used by social media sites to put people in touch with helpful information and social interactions. Participants from the American Cancer Society's Cancer Support Network will have access to this online support group using the default interface that orders content by broad content category and date or with a new interface that highlights communication content and people that match users' interests and needs.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02396472
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 6,500 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Order by time and topic Behavioral
- Order by information relevance Behavioral
- Order by social relationship Behavioral
- Order by help giving Behavioral
- Order by self-disclosure Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2016
- Primary completion
- Aug 15, 2019
- Completion
- Aug 15, 2019
- Last update posted
- Feb 11, 2021
2016 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15213 | — |
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