A Self-Paced, Web-Based, Positive Emotion Skills Intervention for Reducing Symptoms of Depression: Protocol for Development and Pilot Testing of MARIGOLD (Preprint)

Abstract

Background: Living with elevated symptoms of depression can have debilitating consequences for an individual's psychosocial and physical functioning, quality of life, and healthcare utilization. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that skills for increasing positive emotion can be helpful to individuals with depression. Although online interventions to reduce negative emotion in individuals with depression are available, these interventions frequently suffer from poor retention and adherence, and do not capitalize on the potential benefits of increasing positive emotion.

Lessons in Affect Regulation to Keep Stress and Pain UndeR control (LARKSPUR): Design of a randomized controlled trial to increase positive affect in middle-aged and older adults with fibromyalgia

“…The program has been implemented in person (individually and in groups), and most recently, has been delivered online as a self-guided program with people with type 2 diabetes. [66], depression [67][68][69], HIV [70] cancer [71,72], and among the general public coping with COVID-19 [73]. The intervention teaches participants eight PA skills over five weekly learning modules.…”