DoBAt Pilot Trial
- Conditions
- Mental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- PACTR202206574814636
- Lead Sponsor
- Wits Health Consortium
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
? Adolescent males or females aged between 15 and 19 years in grades 9 to 11 at the beginning of the study
?Mild to moderately severe depression indicated by a score between 5 and 19 on the PHQ-A. Those with mild depression (PHQA score 5-9) will only be included if both screening and baseline PHQA scores are more than/ equal to 5
?Able to read sufficiently in Xitsonga to use the app
?Participant (and their parent/ guardian if <18) is willing and able to give informed consent and/or assent for participation in the trial
?Participant is intending to continue to live in the study area for 12 weeks after baseline
?Hospitalisation for at least five days for severe psychiatric illness (specifically bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychoses), or a life-threatening or other serious physical illness
?History of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychoses
?Severe depression as indicated by score >19 on the PHQ-A and assessed by Trial Psychologist as too severe to participate
?Current suicidal ideation/thoughts with specific plans and means identified
?Currently receiving a psychological treatment for a mental health problem(s)
?Lacks capacity to consent to treatment or research participation
?Lacks capacity to utilise the app whether recruited to control or treatment group
?Any other reason that the staff feel would jeopardize the health or well-being of the participant or staff or would prevent proper conduct of the study
?Adolescents who do not speak Xitsonga
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method