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Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study

Over the span of years, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has increased the rate of depression globally, with a 25% rise in incidence in the first year of COVID-19. Due to the high prevalence of major depression and depressive symptoms, there is a demand for psychological treatments that are both affor...

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Main Author: Yap, Guan Ji
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2023
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H Social Sciences (General)
HA Statistics
HM Sociology
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spelling my-utar-eprints.54462023-08-10T09:33:23Z Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study Yap, Guan Ji H Social Sciences (General) HA Statistics HM Sociology Over the span of years, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has increased the rate of depression globally, with a 25% rise in incidence in the first year of COVID-19. Due to the high prevalence of major depression and depressive symptoms, there is a demand for psychological treatments that are both affordable and accessible. However, the notion of mental health is still in its infancy in Malaysia, where it suffers from a serious shortage of resources and studies on Internet-delivered Group Brief CBT (iGBCBT) on depression. To examine the effects of iGBCBT on depressive symptoms, unhelpful automatic thoughts, and dysfunctional attitudes, a purposive sampling method was used to perform a single-group study with five undergraduate students. The assessments used were Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Automatic Thought Questionnaire-8 (ATQ-8), and Dysfunctional Attitude Scale-Short Form v2 (DAS-SF2). Data were collected through Google Forms. The participants were Malaysian undergraduate students between the age of 22 and 23 (M = 22.4 years, SD = 0.548 years), with four males (80%) and one female (20%). A moderate effect size was observed in depressive symptoms (r = 0.600), unhelpful automatic thought (r = 0.500), and dysfunctional attitude (r = 0.600). Nevertheless, the outcome did not reach statistical significance (p > 0.05), suggesting that it may be due to a low sample size and insufficient statistical power. These findings provide a guideline for mental health practitioners and researchers in adapting it to their clinical settings and exploring the effect with a larger sample size in Malaysia. 2023-01 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5446/1/fyp_GC_2023_YGJ.pdf Yap, Guan Ji (2023) Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5446/
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
HA Statistics
HM Sociology
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
HA Statistics
HM Sociology
Yap, Guan Ji
Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study
description Over the span of years, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has increased the rate of depression globally, with a 25% rise in incidence in the first year of COVID-19. Due to the high prevalence of major depression and depressive symptoms, there is a demand for psychological treatments that are both affordable and accessible. However, the notion of mental health is still in its infancy in Malaysia, where it suffers from a serious shortage of resources and studies on Internet-delivered Group Brief CBT (iGBCBT) on depression. To examine the effects of iGBCBT on depressive symptoms, unhelpful automatic thoughts, and dysfunctional attitudes, a purposive sampling method was used to perform a single-group study with five undergraduate students. The assessments used were Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Automatic Thought Questionnaire-8 (ATQ-8), and Dysfunctional Attitude Scale-Short Form v2 (DAS-SF2). Data were collected through Google Forms. The participants were Malaysian undergraduate students between the age of 22 and 23 (M = 22.4 years, SD = 0.548 years), with four males (80%) and one female (20%). A moderate effect size was observed in depressive symptoms (r = 0.600), unhelpful automatic thought (r = 0.500), and dysfunctional attitude (r = 0.600). Nevertheless, the outcome did not reach statistical significance (p > 0.05), suggesting that it may be due to a low sample size and insufficient statistical power. These findings provide a guideline for mental health practitioners and researchers in adapting it to their clinical settings and exploring the effect with a larger sample size in Malaysia.
format Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
author Yap, Guan Ji
author_facet Yap, Guan Ji
author_sort Yap, Guan Ji
title Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study
title_short Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study
title_full Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study
title_fullStr Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of Internet-delivered Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IGBCBT) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in Malaysia: A single group study
title_sort effectiveness of internet-delivered group brief cognitive behavioral therapy (igbcbt) on depressive symptoms among undergraduates students in malaysia: a single group study
publishDate 2023
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5446/1/fyp_GC_2023_YGJ.pdf
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