Dropout in self-guided web-based interventions for depression can be predicted by several variables.

The article focuses on a study on determination of dropout in self-guided web-based interventions for depression by different variables. It states that self-guided interventions show inferior results and higher dropout rates due than guided web-based interventions, and mentions that factors associated with increased risks of dropping out before treatment such as being man with lower education and being older with comorbid anxiety symptoms.