A therapist-guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for Hong Kong university students with psychological distress: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This study is financially supported by the General Research Fund in Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, China (Project No.: HKBU 12606118)."

"The clinical trial has received ethical approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the university of the first author (HASC/14–15/0177) and registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04389242). Participants need to provide informed consent prior to joining. Their participation is voluntary and they can withdraw at any time without penalty. High-risk cases identified in the screening stage will be referred to university counseling services with consent of the client. The client names will be replaced by a code number in the dataset for anonymity."