Online CBT significantly reduces depressive symptoms in college students, indicating effective digital mental health support.
This study examines the intervention effect of online CBT on depressive symptoms in college students.Forty-eight students with obvious depressive symptoms at a Nanchang-based university were randomly divided into online and control groups.The intervention group received eight online interventions over six weeks using communication tools such as WeChat and artificial intelligence tools.After intervention, the HAMA-14 and BDI scores of the intervention group were significantly lower than those of the control group, and the improvement effect in sleep time, sleep efficiency, and total score of the emotion regulation difficulty scale was better than that of the control group (p < 0.05).The total effective rate of the intervention group reached 91.67%, significantly higher than the control group's 37.50% (p < 0.05).Online cognitive behavioural therapy can effectively relieve college students' depressive symptoms, enhance sleep quality and emotion regulation capacity, yet exerts no notable impact on the dimension of recognising their own emotional responses.
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