BetterBET: Better Behaviors, Emotions, and Thoughts
Principal Investigator: Yan Leykin, Ph.D. [email protected]
Co-PI: Ricardo Muñoz, Ph.D.

Only a minority of depression sufferers receives quality care. Internet interventions can offer provide access to depression management tools to people anywhere in the world. BetterBET offers a fully-automatic, interactive, personalized Internet-based self-help intervention for depression. The intervention is based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, an empirically supported treatment for depression. Participants receive access to an eight-lesson intervention, as well as tools to monitor their progress and other helpful resources.

http://tiny.ucsf.edu/BetterBET

This investigation has been funded by grants from the RWJ Health Disparities Working Group and by the CTSI Strategic Opportunities Support Program.

The Mood Screener Project
Principal Investigator: Yan Leykin, Ph.D. [email protected]
Co-PI: Ricardo Muñoz, Ph.D., Nancy Liu, Ph.D.

The multilingual automated Mood Screener offers mood and depression screening to anyone on the Internet. The goal of the project is to understand the prevalence of depression in an Internet community, as well as to track symptoms of depression over time. Participants complete a validated depression screener and receive feedback on their results. Interested participants can sign up to rescreen their mood monthly, for 12 months.

The screener is currently available in five languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.

Click on the links below if you are interested in participating in this study.

Mood Screener

This investigation has been funded by grants from the RWJ Health Disparities Working Group and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.