Qoyangnuptu: QI App Pilot for Assessing Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health App for Adolescents in a Southwestern Tribal Community
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 24
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- To measure the acceptability of the QI App.
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the impacts of using a mobile health app, the Qoyangnuptu Intervention App (QI App) a Southwestern Tribal Community. The main questions it aims to answer are:
In American Indian/Alaska Native communities with unique cultural characteristics, how should a youth-focused sociotechnical behavioral health intervention be designed to encourage sustained engagement and positively impact indicators of behavioral health?; How can interactive technical interventions be designed to best support sustained community engagement in a challenged network environment?
Participants will:
- Receive daily guidance and encouragement to use the app from an anonymous, trained peer mentor
- Be able to ask their peer mentors questions in a monitored one-on-one chat in the QI app or in a monitored group chat in the QI app
- Log their mood and stress level on the app once per day
- Practice mindfulness skills as directed in the QI app, including guided breathing, meditation, drawing, coloring, and walking
- Practice Hopi cultural activities like running using the QI app to help track progress towards team mileage goals
详细描述
Indigenous youth face behavioral health challenges at much higher rates than non-Indigenous youth in the United States. Some of the reasons for these disparities include lack of culturally responsive behavioral health training and coping resources and lack of access to in-person behavioral health resources and interventions. This research seeks to investigate the impact that a mobile phone app that teaches mindfulness and provides opportunities for mindfulness practice might help adolescents from a Southwestern Tribal community increase measures of resilience. The mobile phone app, called the QI App, has been designed with members of the Southwestern Tribal community to ensure cultural appropriateness and responsiveness. It has also been designed with research experts from clinical psychology, serious game design, and computer networking to ensure that it uses evidence-based best practices.
- Recruitment The investigators will use a multipronged recruitment strategy. Recruitment will be carried out by the study team's Community Research Coordinator.
Because the QI App was designed with members of the Southwestern Tribal community as consultants, the investigators already have individual contact information for people who have stated they would like to be reached out to when the investigators are ready to recruit for the pilot. The investigators will use a direct email approach with these individuals.
Through the QI App design process, the study team encountered a number of individuals and organizations who indicated that they would like to share the recruitment posts on their social media when the time came for the pilot. The investigators will prepare a social media post that potential participants can share on their networks.
The investigators will work with their community research coordinator and their Senior Personnel and project consultants to help them post flyers strategically in the community.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 25 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •14-25 years old
- •Belongs to Southwestern Tribal community
- •Has a smartphone capable of running the QI App
- •Is able to access the Internet with smartphone at least once per day
排除标准
- •Younger than 14 or older than 25
- •Does not belong to Southwestern Tribal Community
- •Does not have a smartphone capable of running the QI App
- •Is not able to access the Internet with smartphone at least once per day
结局指标
主要结局
To measure the acceptability of the QI App.
时间窗: Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after starting the app
Through qualitative interviews, the investigators will determine the acceptability of the QI App. 12 participants will be interviewed after they have used the app for 6 weeks.
次要结局
- Impact of app usage on measures of depression.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after starting the app)
- Impact of app usage on attitudes towards seeking professional mental health assistance.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after starting the app)
- Impact of app usage on measures of quiet ego.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after starting the app)
- Impact of app usage on measures of stress.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after starting the app)
- Impact of child's usage of QI App on parent/guardian attitudes towards seeking professional mental health assistance.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after child starts using the app)
- Impact of app usage on measures of mindfulness.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after starting the app)
- Impact of app usage on measures of social connectedness.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after starting the app)
- Impact of child's usage of QI App on parent/guardian perceptions of their child's behavior and emotions.(Baseline, 6 weeks after starting the app, 12 weeks after participant's child starts using the app.)