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Testing a Precision Psychotherapy System for Low-income Patients
Sponsor: National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina
Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of an evidence-based system to recommend core interventions, before the beginning of treatment, to psychotherapists treating low-income patients with depressive or anxiety disorders.
Official title: Open-trial to Prospectively Test the Feasibility of a Precision Psychotherapy System for Low-income Patients
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
111
Start Date
2026-02
Completion Date
2026-11
Last Updated
2021-11-18
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Pre-treatment psychotherapy recommendations
After patients complete an intake evaluation and prior to starting therapy, the assigned therapist will receive automatized feedback that consists of recommendations regarding the most suitable interventions (i.e., cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal or patient-centered) for each individual patients, based on patients' baseline characteristics and a machine learning algorithm developed in a previous study. Besides the interventions recommended, therapist will receive within the system guideline and tutorial videos showing how to deliver adequately the specific interventions recommended.