Importance of depression trial outcomes
Overview
1. About the study
Often, the benefit of a treatment is measured through the performance of one outcome, such as reduction in symptoms. However, we know that often these single outcomes are not always the most important to those receiving or providing the treatment. These outcomes are typically rated by measures, either by a clinician or patient, however, patients have noted often these do not capture issues they feel are important. There has been an increase of involving those with lived experience in creating new mental health outcome measures as opposed to the classic ones made without lived experience involvement. However, these are currently not used very often in clinical or research work.
We would like to test a new way of including the importance of outcomes to those who will be receiving treatments within the research stage. This will involve you being presented with a list of statements linked to possible treatment outcomes from a completed trial and being asked to assign points to these based upon the importance of that outcome to you. This information will be used to create a ‘weight’ and then be used to re-examine the original data to see if considering service-user preferences changes the results.
2. This study aims to collect service-users and service staff views on what outcomes from two completed depression trials are important to them, and to create weights from this information to use to re-analyse the original datasets.
Are you interested in taking part in this study?
Planned end date
31 Aug 2025 00:00Inclusion Criteria
Service-users currently experiencing depression Minimum of 50 Individuals
- Aged between 18-75
- Currently experiencing a self-reported score of 14 or higher (mild to severe depressive symptoms) as rated on the Beck Depression Inventory 2 (BDI-II).
Service-users currently NOT experiencing depression
- Minimum of 50 individuals
- Aged between 18-75
- Have previously experienced depression (self-reported) but are currently NOT experiencing depression, as rated by a score of 13 or lower on the BDI-II
Service Staff for both outcome lists:
- Minimum of 50 Individuals
- Regularly service-user facing, working in Affective Disorder Service
- aged between 18-75
Exclusion Criteria
All participants:
- Younger than 18 years old or older than 75 years old
- Participants currently enrolled in other research studies will not be recruited.
Service-user group:
- Have never experienced depression (self-reported) AND are currently not experiencing depression symptoms on the BDI-II through a score of 13 or less (e.g., healthy participant).
Service-staff
- Not currently working in a service-user facing role
- Not working with service-users with depression
- Not in regular contact with service-users providing treatment or care (e.g., administrative staff)
The Qualtrics survey will automatically screen out those who have never experienced and are currently not experiencing depression. This will include those who answer 'no' to the question 'have you ever experienced depression?' and score 13 or less on the BDI-II, which indicates they are not experiencing depression symptoms within the last 2-weeks.
Qualtrics will also automatically screen out those who are younger than 18 or older than 75 when they are prompted to write their age.
Service-staff will be asked the question 'Do you currently work in a service-user facing role, regularly treating or caring for those with depression?'. Any answers of 'no' will be automatically screened out.