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Question听 In women with postpartum depression (PPD), can an online 1-day cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)鈥揵ased workshop plus treatment as usual improve PPD and its comorbidities compared with treatment as usual alone?

Findings听 In this randomized clinical trial of 403 mothers, online 1-day CBT-based workshops led to clinically and statistically significant improvements in PPD and anxiety, as well as improvements in social support, the mother-infant relationship, and positive affect in infants.

Meaning听 These findings suggest that online 1-day CBT-based workshops provide the scope to treat large numbers of women with PPD effectively and efficiently, increasing access and supporting stepped care approaches.

Importance听 Postpartum depression (PPD) affects as many as 20% of mothers, yet just 1 in 10 of these women receives evidence-based treatment. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased PPD risk, reduced treatment access, and shifted preferences toward virtual care.

Objective听 To determine whether an online 1-day cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)鈥揵ased workshop added to treatment as usual improves PPD, anxiety, social support, mother-infant relationship quality, and infant temperament more than treatment as usual alone.

Design, Setting, and Participants听 This randomized clinical trial included 403 women with PPD who were recruited across Ontario, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic (April 20 to October 4, 2020). Women with Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) scores of at least 10 who were 18 years or older and had an infant younger than 12 months were eligible.

Interventions听 Women were randomly assigned to receive a live, interactive online 1-day CBT-based workshop delivered by a registered psychotherapist, psychiatrist, or clinical psychology graduate student in addition to treatment as usual (n鈥�=鈥�202) or to receive treatment as usual and wait-listed to receive the workshop 12 weeks later (n鈥�=鈥�201).

Main Outcomes and Measures听 The primary outcome was change in PPD (EPDS scores) in experimental and wait list control groups 12 weeks after baseline. Secondary outcomes included maternal anxiety (7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire [GAD-7]), social support (Social Provisions Scale), quality of the mother-infant relationship (Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire), and infant temperament (Infant Behavior Questionnaire鈥揜evised Very Short Form).

Results听 Participants all identified as women with a mean (SD) age of 31.8 (4.4) years. The workshop led to significant mean (SD) reductions in EPDS scores (from 16.47 [4.41] to 11.65 [4.83]; B鈥�=鈥夆垝4.82; P鈥�<鈥�.001) and was associated with a higher odds of exhibiting a clinically significant decrease in EPDS scores (odds ratio,鈥�4.15; 95% CI, 2.66-6.46). The mean (SD) GAD-7 scores decreased from 12.41 (5.12) to 7.97 (5.54) after the workshop (B鈥�=鈥夆垝4.44; 95% CI, 鈭�5.47 to 鈭�3.38; P鈥�<鈥�.001) and participants were more likely to experience a clinically significant change (odds ratio,鈥�3.09; 95% CI, 1.99-4.81). Mothers also reported improvements in bonding (B鈥�=鈥夆垝3.22; 95% CI, 鈭�4.72 to 鈭�1.71; P鈥�<鈥�.001), infant-focused anxiety (B鈥�=鈥夆垝1.64; 95% CI, 鈭�2.25 to 1.00; P鈥�<鈥�.001), social support (B鈥�=鈥�3.31; 95% CI, 1.04 to 5.57; P鈥�<鈥�.001), and positive affectivity/surgency in infants (B鈥�=鈥�0.31; 95% CI, 0.05 to 0.56; P鈥�&濒迟;鈥�.001).

Conclusions and Relevance听 In this randomized clinical trial, an online 1-day CBT-based workshop for PPD provides an effective, brief option for mothers, reducing PPD and anxiety as well as improving social support, the mother-infant relationship, and positive affectivity/surgency in offspring.

Trial Registration听 ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

Postpartum depression (PPD) may affect 1 in 5 mothers,^1,2 but as many as 1 in 3 are affected when elevated levels of depressive symptoms (but not major depressive disorder) are included.³ Mothers with PPD have more anxiety,⁴ parenting difficulties,⁵ and poorer mother-infant attachment,⁶ while their children experience more emotional, behavioral, and school-related problems.^7,8 A single case of PPD is estimated to cost as much as $74鈥�000 GBP over the life span.⁹

Before COVID-19, just 1 in 10 mothers with PPD received evidence-based care.¹⁰ The pandemic has further worsened symptoms,¹¹ added barriers to care, and shifted mothers鈥� treatment preferences.¹² Wait lists, limited time, having to travel to regular appointments, and women鈥檚 preferences for psychotherapy also affect access.^13-15

Although treatment can reduce adverse effects,¹⁶ timely, accessible interventions are essential to optimizing outcomes. Nonetheless, only scalable treatments can affect PPD at the population level.¹⁷ Although effective, group psychotherapy^18,19 can only treat 10 to 12 mothers at a time. However, the provision of interventions in large groups (鈮�30 participants)¹⁷ may be capable of addressing PPD on the scale required to address its prevalence.

Brief (eg, 1-day) interventions contain the core content of more comprehensive evidence-based interventions but are easier to disseminate beyond traditional treatment settings. Face-to-face 1-day cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)鈥揵ased workshops have been used to treat depression in general population samples²⁰ with gains retained up to 2 years after treatment.²¹

Interventions that are brief, accessible (ie, online, self-referred), and delivered in groups to increase support have substantial potential to improve PPD care. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether self-referred online 1-day CBT-based workshops for PPD plus treatment as usual (TAU) could improve PPD compared with TAU alone. Secondary objectives examined differences in anxiety, social support, the mother-infant relationship, and infant temperament.

This parallel-group, province-wide, randomized clinical trial (RCT) took place in Ontario, Canada, from April 20 to October 4, 2020. Participants were continuously recruited and allocated 1:1 to receive the workshop plus TAU (experimental group) or to receive TAU and be put on a wait list to complete the workshop 12 weeks later (control group). A copy of the trial protocol is found in Supplement 1. In Ontario, health care is universally available to all citizens; therefore, TAU could involve medications and/or psychotherapy from a physician and/or clinician at a provincially funded facility/program. Private therapists or any other treatments could also be used. Workshops took place every 3 weeks, and data were collected at baseline (T1) and 12 weeks later (T2) using REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture).²² The study was approved by the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board. Participants provided informed consent before randomization. No study methods changed after trial commencement. This study followed the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials () reporting guideline. Randomization with block sizes of 4, 6, and 8 was used. The randomization scheme was created in R, version 3.5.3 (R Program for Statistical Computing)²³ and implemented by the study coordinator (H.L.), enabling concealment of allocation sequence until group assignment. Staff collecting data and analysts were unaware of group status.

Women self-referred after seeing advertisements on social media or were referred by health care professionals. Eligible participants were 18 years or older, had an infant younger than 12 months, lived in Ontario, and had an Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) score of at least 10. This score is a commonly used cutoff for identifying women who might have PPD^24-28 and was selected to maximize eligibility and public health relevance. More than 30% of postpartum women have these levels of symptoms,³ and this cutoff has a sensitivity of greater than 85% for major depressive episodes.^26,29 No other exclusionary criteria were applied.

Workshops were delivered via Zoom by a registered psychotherapist, a clinical psychology graduate student, or a psychiatrist (R.J.V.L.). Therapists completed 1 day of in-classroom training and had 1 workshop observed before RCT workshops. They were randomly assigned to deliver workshops.

The intervention was a 1-day (9 am to 4 pm) interactive workshop consisting of didactic teaching, group exercises/discussion, and role playing in 4 modules. The first module reviewed PPD etiology with a focus on modifiable cognitive risk factors (negative thoughts, maladaptive core beliefs). The second module focused on cognitive skills, including cognitive restructuring. The third module built behavioral skills such as problem solving, behavioral activation, and assertiveness. The fourth module provided an opportunity for goal setting and action planning. Workshops were based on the original work by Horrell et al²⁰ but added cognitive restructuring and exercises addressing worry, sleep, and supports. Participants received a workshop manual before their workshop took place (eFigure in Supplement 2).

At enrollment, participants self-reported sociodemographic characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, infant age, marital status, educational attainment, income, past counseling), and current antidepressant and other mental health service use in the previous 12 weeks. Participants completed questionnaires at T1 and T2.

Our primary outcome (PPD) was measured using the EPDS, a 10-item questionnaire assessing symptoms during the last 7 days.²⁴ In the EPDS, each item is scored on a 4-point scale (range, 0-3) and produces a total score ranging from 0 to 30, with scores of 10 or greater indicating possible PPD. This cutoff is more sensitive than higher thresholds,²⁶ and although less specific, participants with false-positive findings frequently have problems (eg, anxiety) that can respond to CBT. Based on Jacobson and Truax鈥檚 reliable change index³⁰ and consistent with the work of others,^31,32 we defined an EPDS score change of at least 4 points as indicative of a clinically significant change in depressive symptoms.

Secondary outcomes included anxiety, social support, mother-infant bonding, and infant temperament. The 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7) measures anxiety severity and contains 7 items scored on a 0- to 3-point scale, with higher scores indicating worse anxiety. The GAD-7 has been validated in postpartum samples.^33,34 A difference of 4 points defined a clinically significant change.³⁵

The Social Provisions Scale (SPS) is a 24-item self-report measure of an individual鈥檚 perception that their social relationships provide support.³⁶ Total scale score was used, with higher scores indicating better perceived support.

The Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ) contains 25 self-reported items assessing the mother-infant relationship. The PBQ contains 4 subscales: impaired bonding, rejection and pathological anger toward the infant, infant-focused anxiety (IFA), and incipient abuse.³⁷ The incipient abuse scale was not examined owing to past performance issues.³⁸

The Infant Behavior Questionnaire鈥揜evised Very Short Form (IBQ-R) is a 37-item parent-report measure of temperament³⁹ that mothers used to assess infant behaviors during the past week on a 7-point scale. The IBQ-R addresses 3 factors: positive affectivity/surgency, which covers smiling, laughter, and pleasure; negative emotionality, which covers distress related to limitations, fear, and reactivity; and orienting/regulatory capacity, which covers soothability and orienting.

We used RMASS2⁴⁰ to estimate our sample size. This was based on a type I error of 0.01 and 90% power to detect a group 脳 time interaction between experimental and control arms from T1 to T2 of medium effect size (Cohen d鈥�=鈥�0.40). Anticipating 30% attrition of enrolled women, the target sample size was 388 (194 per arm).

Factors associated with attrition were identified for those who completed the study vs those who enrolled but did not complete a workshop and/or T2 questionnaires. We used an intention-to-treat approach that uses participant data regardless of treatment nonadherence, protocol deviation, or withdrawal after randomization, yielding a conservative estimate of treatment effect.⁴¹ In keeping with the intention-to-treat approach, all follow-up data obtained were analyzed according to participant randomization.

Continuous outcomes were analyzed using linear mixed models with restricted maximum likelihood estimation. A 2-level hierarchy was used in which outcomes at each time (T1 and T2 [level 1]) were nested within participants (level 2). Group assignment was included as a fixed effect, allowing us to assess the effect of the intervention over time in the experimental and control groups. A random-effects intercept adjusted for unobserved heterogeneity at the level of the individual participant and for clustering effects. Because linear mixed models include observations of participants who completed T1 but were lost to follow-up, this approach is more powerful than traditional repeated-measures techniques using listwise deletion.

For outcomes that showed a statistically significant group 脳 time interaction, models were stratified by group to describe postworkshop score change in the experimental group. Estimated marginal means of scale scores within each group at T1 and T2, adjusted for workshop facilitator, are reported with SDs. We also computed logistic regression models to assess the odds of participants experiencing a clinically significant change in EPDS and GAD-7 scores. All analyses controlled for workshop facilitator to account for potential differences in effectiveness that may have existed between workshop leaders. Two-sided P < .05 indicated statistical significance. Analyses were performed in SPSS Statistics, version 26 (IBM Corp).⁴²

A total of 917 mothers were assessed for eligibility, and 403 were randomized to the intervention group (n鈥�=鈥�202) or the control group (n鈥�=鈥�201) (Figure). Participants鈥� baseline characteristics are summarized in Table 1. The mean (SD) age was 31.8 (4.4) years, and most mothers had partners. The mean (SD) age of their infants was 5.3 (3.4) months. Eighty-seven mothers (22%) were taking antidepressant medication at T1, and 167 (41%) previously had some counseling.

A mean of 16 participants attended each workshop, and mothers from all 14 geographically defined Ontario Local Health Integration Networks participated. Four workshops were delivered by a psychiatrist, 3 were delivered by a clinical psychology graduate student, and 3 were delivered by a registered psychotherapist.

The intervention was well tolerated, with 10 of 161 participants in the experimental group (6%) expressing a preference that it be delivered differently (eg, in half-days). Among the 161 participants who attended the workshop, 155 (96%) remained online for the entire session, 140 (87%) indicated that they were very satisfied with the workshop, and 143 (89%) said that they would refer a friend. Of the 403 participants, 46 (11%) were lost to follow-up. Of these, 37 were in the experimental group (蠂²₁ =鈥�19.08; P鈥�<鈥�.001 [n鈥�=鈥�403]) and were lost to follow-up before workshop completion. All baseline participant characteristics were examined as potential factors associated with attrition. There were no differences in attrition factors between experimental and control groups. Those lost to follow-up reported lower household income ($64鈥�454 vs $101鈥�414; t₄₀₃鈥�=鈥�2.84; P鈥�=鈥�.007) and were less likely to have received counseling previously (10 vs 157; 蠂²₁ =鈥�4.11; P鈥�=鈥�.04 [n鈥�=鈥�403]).

After adjusting for the fixed effect of workshop facilitator, statistically significant group 脳 time interactions with SDs were associated with EPDS score (B鈥�=鈥夆垝2.94 [8.67]; P鈥�<鈥�.001), GAD-7 score (B鈥�=鈥夆垝2.86 [9.54]; P鈥�<鈥�.001), SPS score (B鈥�=鈥�2.32 [15.32]; P鈥�=鈥�.008), PBQ infant bonding (B鈥�=鈥夆垝1.23 [10.84]; P鈥�=鈥�.03), PBQ-IFA (B =鈥夆垝1.10 [5.03]; P鈥�<鈥�.001), IBQ-R positive affectivity/surgency (B鈥�=鈥�0.55 [2.05]; P鈥�<鈥�.001), and IBQ-R negative emotionality (B鈥�=鈥�0.33 [2.19]; P鈥�=鈥�.005) (Table 2). Estimated marginal means of scale scores by group and time adjusting for facilitator are included in Table 3. There were no statistically significant differences in outcomes owing to workshop facilitator, nor was there an association between facilitator and differences in the magnitude of treatment effect.

After stratifying by intervention group, mean (SD) experimental group participant EPDS scores decreased from 16.47 (4.41) before treatment to 11.65 (4.83) after treatment (B鈥�=鈥夆垝4.82; P鈥�<鈥�.001; Cohen d鈥�=鈥�0.86). These scores also indicated greater odds of exhibiting a clinically significant change in EPDS scores relative to control participants (odds ratio [OR],鈥�4.15; 95% CI, 2.66-6.46; number needed to treat,鈥�2.9; risk difference,鈥�33.9%). The mean (SD) GAD-7 scores decreased from 12.41 (5.12) to 7.97 (5.54) (B鈥�=鈥夆垝4.44; 95% CI, 鈭�5.47 to 鈭�3.38; P鈥�<鈥�.001; Cohen d鈥�=鈥�0.69). Experimental group participants also had higher odds of a clinically significant improvement in GAD-7 scores (OR,鈥�3.09; 95% CI, 1.99-4.81; number needed to treat, 3.8; risk difference, 27.0%). The PBQ bonding scores improved (B鈥�=鈥夆垝3.22; 95% CI, 鈭�4.72 to 鈭�1.71; P鈥�<鈥�.001; Cohen 诲鈥�=鈥�0.34) and infant-focused anxiety decreased (B鈥�=鈥夆垝1.64; 95% CI, 鈭�2.25 to 1.00; P鈥�<鈥�.001; Cohen 诲鈥�=鈥�0.42). The SPS scores (B鈥�=鈥�3.31; 95% CI, 1.04 to 5.57; P鈥�<鈥�.001; Cohen 诲鈥�=鈥�0.24) increased after the workshop, as did IBQ-R positive affectivity/surgency in infants (B鈥�=鈥�0.31; 95% CI, 0.05 to 0.56; P鈥�<鈥�.001; Cohen 诲鈥�=鈥�0.20). The IBQ-R negative emotionality scores did not decrease in the intervention group, although they did in the control group (B鈥�=鈥夆垝0.48; 95% CI, 鈭�0.72 to 鈭�0.23; P鈥�<鈥�.001; Cohen 诲鈥�=鈥�0.16). There were no differences between groups in change in antidepressant medication use (dose increase/medication switch vs decrease/discontinuation (蠂²₁ =鈥�0.28; P鈥�=鈥�.60 [n鈥�=鈥�403]) or mental health service use at T1 (蠂²₁鈥�= 0.10; P鈥�=鈥�.75 [n鈥�=鈥�403]) or T2 (蠂²₁ = 1.74; P鈥�=鈥�.19 [n鈥�=鈥�403]). Although the Beck Depression Inventory-II was included in trial registration and administered, it was considered redundant given that its results mirrored those of the EPDS; therefore, these results are reported in eTables 1 and 2 in Supplement 2.

Postpartum depression is a significant public health problem with adverse effects on mothers and offspring. This RCT of online 1-day CBT-based workshops for PPD vs usual care during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that when added to TAU, this intervention leads to clinically significant changes in PPD and anxiety and improves social support, as well as maternal reports of mother-infant bonding, infant-focused anxiety, and positive affectivity in infants. These findings were consistent across therapist type.

Online 1-day workshops for PPD could be an efficient means of increasing treatment access and reducing PPD symptoms. The size of their effect on PPD is similar to those of some RCTs of full courses of CBT for perinatal depression^18,43 and other online psychotherapies⁴⁴ and comparable to those of 1-day workshops in general population samples of adults^17,20,45 and youth.⁴⁶ Its effects are also similar to some trials of full courses of interpersonal psychotherapy but smaller than others.¹⁹ Whether these differences are due to the type or duration of therapy or participant inclusion criteria is not known. Head-to-head trials will be required to definitively determine the relative effectiveness of 1-day interventions compared with more lengthy treatments. Regardless, these workshops could help large numbers of women and could also be appealing to public health professionals.

Although the workshops are not specifically designed to treat postpartum anxiety, they led to clinically significant changes, an important finding given that anxiety affects as many as half of mothers with PPD.⁴ Although few RCTs for postpartum anxiety exist, the magnitude of the workshop effect is comparable to these and to previous PPD treatments.^19,47

In addition to reducing maternal PPD and anxiety, this intervention appears to positively affect maternal perceptions of the mother-infant relationship. These findings are in keeping with previous studies^48,49 that suggest that maternal psychotherapy can improve mother-infant interactions. However, the findings of other studies are mixed,⁵⁰ and some suggest that these effects can decrease over time.⁴⁸

Finally, 1-day CBT-based workshops may increase positive affectivity/surgency in infants. This is important from a public health perspective because 72% of costs associated with maternal PPD are owing to offspring problems.⁹ Although the longer-term clinical implications of this finding are not clear, attenuated positive affect is a risk factor for later major depressive disorder,⁵¹ and increased positive affectivity in infancy is associated with improved school readiness,⁵² social functioning,⁵³ and behavior.⁵⁴ Positive affectivity may also mitigate the adverse effects of maternal depression.^55-57 Although previous studies of the effects of maternal⁵⁸ and mother-infant psychotherapy⁴³ on offspring outcomes have been mixed, earlier intervention in the postpartum period could have a more positive effect.^59,60

The intervention tested in this study is brief, accessible, and based on psychotherapeutic techniques that are acceptable to mothers and that could potentially be taught to nonexperts.⁶¹ That its effects are clinically significant and consistent across therapist types highlights its potential scalability. Self-referral, online access, and inclusive inclusion criteria were used, and women were permitted to use TAU to increase generalizability.

This study has some limitations. Although study participants represented a convenience sample, they were ethnically representative of mothers in the province of Ontario, were mainly White individuals and married, and had free access to universal health care; therefore, we do not know whether our results can be generalized to all settings. Attrition was higher in the experimental group, but this may have been owing to the anticipation of those on the wait list of their workshop, a phenomenon observed in previous studies of 1-day, CBT-based workshops using wait list controls.²⁰ Future studies should examine how recruitment materials and workshop structure can optimize inclusivity.²⁰ Participants self-referred and our main eligibility criterion (EPDS score 鈮�10) was intentionally inclusive, although on average participants had moderate depression. However, not all participants will have met diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder, and some may have had a primary diagnosis of another mental disorder (eg, GAD). Nonetheless, because as many as 1 in 3 mothers have an EPDS score of at least 10, and because those with subsyndromal PPD may have even worse outcomes (because they often fail to seek treatment and are ineligible for clinical services),^5,62 these findings could still have public health relevance.

Because we wished to launch the trial at the onset of the pandemic, the intervention was delivered by a small number of clinicians at a single center. Because they had a range of backgrounds and differing levels of clinical experience, there will be value in testing delivery by other health care professionals (eg, public health nurses). Uncertainty early in the pandemic around when in-person interventions could resume led to a delay in our registering the RCT at ClinicalTrials.gov, and so 50% of participants were enrolled by its registration. These participants did not differ from participants enrolled after that point, and no analyses were completed until after the trial was complete.

Outcomes were based on maternal reports alone and were not reported until 12 weeks after the workshop, and we did not use structured diagnostic interviews. Because changes in PPD and ratings of mother-infant and infant outcomes tend to be correlated, shifts in dyadic outcomes may reflect improvements in maternal depression alone. We assessed outcomes 12 weeks after treatment, and so the longer-term impact and cost-effectiveness of the intervention are not known. However, promising data from previous face-to-face CBT-based workshops suggest that their impact may be durable and cost-effective.²⁰ We did not extensively assess participant satisfaction with the intervention, and future work should examine how to optimize workshop accessibility, given the uniqueness of mothers鈥� lives. Likewise, because participants who left the treatment group may have done so for a variety of reasons, these data may not be missing at random, which could bias our results. Last, the use of a wait list control group may have inflated the effect size of the intervention, and we cannot rule out that spontaneous recovery contributed to our findings.

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed the way mothers with infants access mental health care. This RCT supports the superiority of self-referred, online 1-day CBT-based workshops added to TAU over TAU alone for improving PPD, anxiety, social support, the mother-infant relationship, and infant temperament.

Given that a proportion of women dropped out of the study between recruitment and eligibility assessment, we need to better understand barriers to participation and the factors associated with barriers before scaling is considered. Future work should examine issues relating to the practical scalability of the intervention, as well as those relating to accessibility including motivation, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity, and determine for whom the workshops work best and the optimal method of delivery (eg, full-day vs half-day vs more modular delivery). Understanding factors associated with participation can also help optimize uptake and intervention effectiveness.

Because PPD treatment guidelines recommend a stepped approach where the least expensive and intrusive interventions are offered first,⁶³ these workshops could be an important early step in PPD treatment pathways, treating some women while identifying those in need of more intensive treatment. Given that these workshops may be capable of treating as many as 30 women at a time from the comfort of their own homes, they could represent a significant component of the next successfully implemented, research-enabled public health strategy, an important goal given women鈥檚 treatment preferences and the importance of maternal mental health to children, families, and society.

Accepted for Publication: July 6, 2021.

Published Online: September 8, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.2488

Correction: This article was corrected on September 29, 2021, to fix a denominator and the corresponding percentage in the third paragraph of the Results section.

Corresponding Author: Ryan J. Van Lieshout, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main St W, Room 4H4E, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, Canada (vanlierj@mcmaster.ca).

Author Contributions: Dr Van Lieshout and Mr Savoy had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Concept and design: Van Lieshout, Brown, Streiner, Bieling, Feller.

Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Van Lieshout, Layton, Savoy, Streiner, Bieling, Ferro, Feller, Hanna.

Drafting of the manuscript: Van Lieshout, Layton, Savoy, Streiner, Bieling, Hanna.

Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Van Lieshout, Layton, Savoy, Brown, Streiner, Ferro, Feller, Hanna.

Statistical analysis: Van Lieshout, Savoy, Streiner, Ferro, Hanna.

Obtained funding: Van Lieshout, Streiner, Ferro.

Administrative, technical, or material support: Van Lieshout, Layton, Savoy, Brown, Bieling.

Supervision: Van Lieshout.

Other (approved the version to be published): Feller.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

Funding/Support: This study was supported by a grant (COVID-19 Op Gr: COVID-19 MH/SU Developing Innovative Adaptations of Services/Delivery competition) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The sponsor had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Additional Contributions: Meena Rangan, MSc, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Erika Haber, MSc, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Dr Van Lieshout delivered treatment workshops, for which Mss Rangan and Haber were compensated. Sawayra Owais, MSc, MD/PhD Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Merwa Amer, MSc, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Madisyn Campbell, BSc, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, assisted with recruitment and participant retention, for which Mss Amer and Campbell were compensated.

Data Sharing Statement: See Supplement 3.