Optimizing treatment expectations in internet-based interventions for depression (A16)

• Subject Area: Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 422744262

Project A16 will extend their previous work on the role of illness beliefs as a crucial determinant of treatment expectation and treatment outcomes in major depression by turning to the rapidly developing field of internet-based interventions (IBI). Knowledge about the role of expectations, their malleability, and modulating contextual factors in IBI is lacking, and the setting provides a unique opportunity to delineate the temporal dynamics of treatment expectations and their interplay with treatment experiences, putative psychotherapeutic mechanisms, symptom perception, and side effects, and how these influence health-related decisions.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 289: Treatment Expectation - The impact of expectation on health outcome
• Applicant Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Christine Knaevelsrud, since 7/2024; Professor Winfried Rief, Ph.D.