Participants
depression, anxiety
Participants were recruited through paid web-based social media advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. Participants were young people from the general population aged between 16 and 25 years who were experiencing clinical levels of depression and anxiety (≥10 on the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 [PHQ-8] [A target sample size of 30 participants was initially deemed sufficient to meet the aims as a pilot study and is consistent with the guidelines in the literature for pilot trials [