Web-Based, Self-Help Intervention GET.ON Mood Helps Prevent Depression

A web-based self-help depression intervention called GET.ON Mood helped people diagnosed with subclinical depression prevent development of more severe depression. The intervention provided cognitive-behavioral and problem-solving therapy supported by an online trainer; a comparison group used a web-based psychoeducation program. A year after using the web-based programs, 27% of the GET.ON Mood users and 41% of the psychoeducation program users developed major depressive disorder. The online-training GET.ON Mood is aimed to reach people with mild to moderate depressive symptoms.

These findings were reported in “Effect of a Web-Based Guided . . .