Smartphones Aggravating Anxiety Symptoms: Experimental Study From Southeastern
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 发起方
- Mayo Clinic
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in anxiety
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this study is to assess if excessive use of smartphone apps of social media can impact a person's mental health. The study is aimed at improving the usage of smartphones which might help improve the mental health of patients. The goal is not to discourage the use of smartphones but instead to utilize smartphones in a way that they do not impact lives.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •For patients aged 18 years or older experiencing mild symptoms of anxiety or depression and who have a GAD-7 score 5 and above.
- •Patient should have smart phone and should be using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, and Pinterest social media apps.
- •Patients should have email access.
排除标准
- •Any patient who uses a smartphone for tracking glucose for diabetes management, heart rate, or any chronic illness which is being managed through a smartphone app.
- •Any patient who uses more than one personal smartphone
- •Any patient who is a suicide risk as per PHQ-9 score, current recreational drug usage, or alcohol abuse.
- •Any patient who has suicidal ideation as per PHQ-9 assessment before or during the study period will be excluded, (all patients will be monitored for suicidal ideation by PHQ-9 scoring method at day 1, week 6, and week 12, but it is the responsibility of the patient to inform the study team if they have developed any suicidal ideation throughout the study period).
- •Patients with activated POA (Power of Attorney - Healthcare), diagnosis of mental retardation or current disability due to any psychiatric disorder or severe depression with a high risk of suicide should be excluded.
- •Any patient currently undergoing ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) for severe depression.
- •Any patient taking prescribed SSRIs/SNRIs, with a change and not taking them continuously in last 30 days (not a new diagnosis of anxiety). If change they will be excluded.
研究组 & 干预措施
General decrease in smartphone use.
Subjects will limit their time on smartphone.
干预措施: General decrease in smartphone use (Behavioral)
Avoid certain social media apps
Subjects will limit time on smartphone, in particular avoiding use of social media apps on the smartphone which includes Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram, and Pinterest.
干预措施: Avoiding Social Media Apps (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in anxiety
时间窗: Day 1, 12 weeks
Measured using the General Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD 7) scale to assess severity of generalized anxiety disorder. Scoring is calculated by assigning scores of 0, 1, 2, and 3 to the response categories, respectively, of "not at all," "several days," "more than half the days," and "nearly every day." Total score for the seven items ranges from 0 to 21 where 0 is no anxiety, 1-4 is minimal anxiety, 5-9 is mild anxiety, 10-14 is moderate anxiety, and 15-21 is severe anxiety.
次要结局
- Change in depression(Day 1, 12 weeks)
研究者
Gagandeep Singh
Principal Investigator
Mayo Clinic