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    yaomxu@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Management Science and Engineering Position: Graduate
    University - Student Department: Sociology Position: Graduate

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  • A crowdsourced megastudy of 12 digital single-session interventions for depression in US adults. Nature human behaviour Kaveladze, B. T., Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., Huang, M., Smock, A. E., Sullivan, E. K., Xu, Y. M., McCall, M. P., Zapata, J. P., Ahmed, S. I., Bhattacharjee, A., Georgieva, I., Hernandez-Ramos, R., Huber, K. S., Jennings, J. K., Kirk, A. C., Knowles, R. S., Kornfield, R., Lind, M. N., Liu, M., Liut, M. A., Mariakakis, A. T., Mattu, A. M., McGuire, A. P., Meyerhoff, J., Mrazek, A. J., Mrazek, M. D., Mohr, D. C., Morris, R. R., Mosunic, C. J., Nip, H., Olson-Urtecho, A., Podell, J. R., Ransom, D. S., Rizvi, S. L., Southward, M. W., Stoeckl, S. E., Taylor, M. E., Texter, A. R., Tower, C. V., Trotter, A. N., Williams, J. J., Wislocki, K. E., Woodson, E. J., Protzko, J., Lorenzo-Luaces, L., Schueller, S. M., Nock, M. K., Schleider, J. L. 2026

    Abstract

    Digital, self-guided, single-session interventions (SSIs) deliver structured psychological support within one interaction. Here we crowdsourced 66 diverse 10-min SSIs for depression and, with input from researchers and lived-experience experts, selected 11 for testing in a preregistered online randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06856668 ). US adults (N = 7,505) experiencing elevated depressive symptoms were randomly assigned to 1 of the 11 crowdsourced SSIs, a validated behavioural activation SSI (active comparator) or a control condition without intervention content. Nearly all SSIs improved psychological outcomes immediately after completion (d ≤ 0.37). However, only two SSIs significantly reduced depression at 4-week follow-up (d = 0.14 and 0.15). Unexpectedly, completing an SSI made participants feel less confident and less interested in making changes to overcome depression at 4 weeks, on average (d = 0.05). Future work should aim to leverage SSIs' immediate benefits to promote sustained behaviour change or service engagement.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41562-026-02415-6

    View details for PubMedID 41772060

    View details for PubMedCentralID 6732705

  • Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES Xu, Y., Coplin, A., Su, P., Makovi, K. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1080/1369183X.2024.2332743

    View details for Web of Science ID 001200012700001