Providing Mental Health Support Through an Educational and Entertaining Breakfast Show in the United Kingdom - a 12-week Feasibility Trial of Wakey
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 3,993
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Overall engagement
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of Wakey! is to increase access to wellbeing support to lower socio-economic groups who have traditionally been excluded from the design and evaluation of digital mental health interventions. This feasibility study is designed to explore engagement, initial efficacy and experience of using Wakey! in the underserved populations in the United Kingdom. This will be used to further adapt and refine the intervention, so it is appealing and effective in the target populations.
详细描述
Mental health conditions are a considerable burden for patients and health services and have been shown to have social patterning in severity and incidence. Children and adults living in the lowest 20% income bracket are two to three times more likely to develop a mental health condition than those people living in the top 20% bracket. Unemployment, working in jobs with low pay and insecure work have been found to be detrimental to mental health. Mental health services are struggling to cope with demands on services, and unequal access to support is further exacerbating health inequalities.
Digital interventions have been proposed as a solution to address the high demand for mental health support in the context of the crisis in healthcare services. These interventions provide the potential to reduce health disparities, by providing personalised low-cost infinitely reusable resource that can increase access to health interventions. However, these interventions may increase inequity, where access and usability for disadvantaged groups remain barriers. To ensure health inequalities are not further exacerbated, there is a need to develop digital interventions that are appealing and accessible those from lower socioeconomic groups. These are social groups that currently look to entertainment to regulate difficult emotions and for education.
An initial pilot of the 9-minute show was trialled in the United Kingdom with a lower socio-economic group and was well received. The app was advertised through the companies that partner with Lost In TV Audience Services, who has a database of 450,000 people. In the initial pilot 43,000 people opened the email about the app. The live morning breakfast show that ran for two weeks was used by 450 participants. The findings were that 50% watched all 10 shows, 65% said that would download the app "today", 70% said it was easier to get out of bed, 53% saw an increase in life satisfaction, and 67% reported an increase in self-efficacy.
The primary objectives of the feasibility study are:
- To assess how many people download the app in the target population
- To assess participant's engagement with the app over the 12-week trial period
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 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
- •App users who are at least 18 years old.
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Overall engagement
时间窗: 12 weeks; collected daily (not on weekends) throughout the trial
Number of episodes (livestream/archived) watched over the 12-week period.
次要结局
- Change in self-efficacy(12 weeks; baseline, then weekly follow-ups until the end of the trial)
- Entertainment value of the episode(12 weeks; daily question from Mon-Fri during the trial)
- Change in the ease of getting up in the morning(12 weeks; baseline, then weekly follow-ups until the end of the trial; as a daily question from Mon-Fri during the trial)
- Change in personal well-being(12 weeks; baseline, then weekly follow-ups until the end of the trial)