@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence and predictors of distress associated with completion of an online survey assessing mental health and suicidality in the community",
journal="Psychiatry research",
year="2018",
author="Batterham, Philip J. and Calear, Alison L. and Carragher, Natacha and Sunderland, Matthew",
volume="262",
number="",
pages="348-350",
abstract="While there is evidence that mental health surveys do not typically increase distress, limited research has examined distress in online surveys. The study investigated whether completion of a 60-min online community-based mental health survey (n = 3620) was associated with reliable increases in psychological distress. 2.5% of respondents had a reliable increase in distress, compared to 5.0% with a reliable decrease, and decreased distress overall across the sample (Cohen's d = -0.22, p < 0.001). Initial depression/anxiety symptoms were associated with increased distress, but suicidality was not. Online mental health surveys are associated with low prevalence of increased distress.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1781",
doi="10.1016/j.psychres.2017.08.048",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.08.048"
}