Feasibility of a Technology-Based Treatment Support System
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Terminated
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
- Enrollment
- 11
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Retention
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study aims to evaluate a technology-based treatment support system for patients undergoing the treatment of depression. The investigators will explore the usefulness of the technology-based treatment support system as an adjunct to psychotherapy for depression.
Detailed Description
This study aims to evaluate a technology-based treatment support system "mConnect" for patients undergoing the treatment of depression. This system will be evaluated by conducting a randomized controlled trial where patients will either receive the mConnect mobile app or treatment as usual.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years of age or older
- •English-speaking
- •Currently enrolled in outpatient treatment
- •Current diagnosis of major depressive disorder
- •Ownership of a smartphone device compatible with the mobile app
- •Exclusion Criteria
- •visual, hearing, voice, or motor impairment that would prevent completion of the study procedures or use of mobile phone
- •diagnosis of a psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, dissociative disorder, substance use disorder, or other diagnosis for which participation in this trial is inappropriate, severe suicidality (has ideation, plan, and intent).
- •having completed more than 3 sessions of psychotherapy with current therapist
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Retention
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Number of completed sessions
Adherence
Time Frame: 8 weeks
The use of the mobile app. This data will be collected passively by the mobile app sending the following information to the secure server: the date and time the mobile app is launched, the date and time any information is entered into the mobile app, the content of any information entered into the mobile app, the date and time any lessons within the mobile app are read by the participant.
Satisfaction
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Participant satisfaction with the mobile app will be assessed with a patient version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) that addresses engagement, functionality, aesthestics, information quality, and one subjective rating of the app as a whole.
Secondary Outcomes
- Depression(8 weeks)
Investigators
Stephen Schueller
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University