Chatbot Intervention Effects on Social and Monetary Incentive Processing in Anhedonia

The main aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of a Motivational Interviewing-based artificial intelligence chatbot on social incentive processing in college students with elevated levels of depression and anhedonia by combining a randomized active-control intervention design with pre- and post-intervention Social Incentive Delay Task assessments during fMRI.

NCT Number	NCT07665242
Lead Sponsor	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Conditions	Healthy
Enrollment	80 participants
Start Date	2026-06-20
Primary Completion	2028-06-30 (estimated)
Study Completion	2028-12-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-07-09