SOVA Ambassadors Community Setting

NCT06066697 | Terminated Results

• 2 other identifiers: STUDY23020021R21MD016143
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 12
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine participant adherence to intervention feasibility and acceptability of intervention, attention control, and implementation strategy.

Conditions

Depression

Keywords

Adolescent; Adolescent Medicine; Mental Health Services; eHealth; Online Systems; Primary Healthcare; Social Media; Social Support

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Feasibility of Intervention

  Average number of articles written per participant; Research team extract data from websites and observation notes

  12 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (20)

• Feasibility of Control Arm

  12 weeks

• Acceptability of Intervention

  12 weeks

• Acceptability of Implementation Strategy

  Baseline

• Acceptability of Randomization

  12 weeks

• Depression Severity

  6 weeks

Study Arms (2)

SOVA Peer Ambassador Program

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will be given login information for a website sova.pitt.edu. They will be given weekly emails notifications about new posts. The participant will be onboarded as a blogging peer ambassador. The participant will be expected to contribute content to the website at least once a month by 1. writing a blog article 2. sending information (de-identified photo or video or music) to post • If they choose this option they will be encouraged to submit their own photo, video, or music to the website or they will be encouraged to write a response to a photo, video, or music piece. 3. being interviewed by the RA and then the RA "ghostwriting" an article about the interview which they pre-approve prior to it being posted.

Behavioral: SOVA Ambassador

attention control: brief psychoeducational independent assignments

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants will be sent a REDCap form where they will receive a link to a SOVA article to read and a question for them to answer about what they read that will be accessible only to the study team. They will be asked to do this a couple times a month and will be reminded about their participation.

Behavioral: Self-Reflection

Interventions

SOVA Ambassador BEHAVIORAL

The SOVA Ambassador intervention includes: adolescents will have access to the website specifically for adolescents: sova.pitt.edu These anonymous websites aim to: (1) challenge negative health beliefs and increase depression/anxiety knowledge through daily blog posts enhanced with peer commentary; (2) promote social support through online peer interactions; and (3) encourage parent-adolescent mental health communication through same day blog posts with questions for discussion. Participants that receive this intervention will contribute monthly articles and regular comments.

SOVA Peer Ambassador Program

Self-Reflection BEHAVIORAL

Participant will be given an article from the sova.pitt.edu website and a prompt to write about privately.

attention control: brief psychoeducational independent assignments

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 14 Years - 21 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Ages 14 to 21
• Can read and understand English
• Has completed 6th grade
• Scores at least 5 or greater on the PHQ-8 (depression) and/or 5 or greater on GAD-7 (anxiety) consistent with at least mild symptoms

You may not qualify if:

• no access to internet
• Has an intellectual or physical ability which prohibits reading text on the internet (can participate if able to use with assistance, e.g. can use text to speech)
• No active email account (can participate if plans to create one)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pittsburgh: lead
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Limitations and Caveats

All collected data for pre-specified primary and secondary outcome measures were summarized and reported in the outcome measure data tables. The planned statistical analyses were not performed due to insufficient enrollment and additional pre-planned analyses being statistically inappropriate.

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Ana Radovic MD, MSc
• Organization: University of Pittsburgh

anr94@pitt.edu

412 692 7227

Study Officials

• Ana Radovic, MD, MSc

  University of Pittsburgh

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: The statistician conducting analyses will be blinded to randomized arm.
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 27, 2023
• First Posted: October 4, 2023
• Study Start: October 25, 2023
• Primary Completion: November 22, 2024
• Study Completion: November 22, 2024
• Last Updated: January 16, 2026
• Results First Posted: January 16, 2026

Record last verified: 2025-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, CSR

Locations

US (1)