Calling for Care: Cell Phones for Mood Telemetry in Teens

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Bipolar Disorder; Cyclothymia; Borderline Personality Disorder
• Interventions: Other: Mental health telemetry (MHT)

• Registration Number: NCT01083823
• Lead Sponsor: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Brief Summary

We will modify our existing VMQ/VADIS mood telemetry software to run on a Motorola platform, and enhance it to collect information on both mood symptoms (currently covered by the VMQ/VADIS) as well as daily life stressors (currently outside the VMQ/VADIS' scope). By doing so, we will be able us to examine the role of daily stressors in the lives of teens with and without mood swings, to identify how changes in mood triggered by stressful events are similar to or different from mood changes linked to the bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, or other forms of affective instability.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-03
• Study First Submitted: 2010-03-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-03-08
• Study First Posted: 2010-03-10
• Status Verified: 2012-04
• Primary Completion: 2012-04
• Study Completion: 2012-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-04-19
• Last Update Posted: 2012-04-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 33

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 14-20yrs,
• Either (i) self-reported healthy with no past / present history of substance use problems OR (ii) self-reported severe mood swings interfering with daily life.
• Fluent in English.

Exclusion Criteria

• Inability to be trained successfully on the MHT software or to complete questionnaires without assistance.
• Unwillingness to sign / maintain a contract with a cell phone service provider.
• Lack of parental assent / willingness to act as guarantor for cell phone provider contract

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Self-reported mood swings	Mental health telemetry (MHT)	Participants who self-identify as experiencing severe mood swings that interfere with life.
Healthy	Mental health telemetry (MHT)	Participants who self-identify as not experiencing mood swings in the past or at present and who deny past / present problems with substance use.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
usability	After nine months' enrollment	Assessment of participant drop-out and reporting rates

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Validity	Every three months x 9 months	Validate that the data reported by telemetry is valid, by comparing cell phone questionnaire responses with results of standardized clinical ratings collected every-three-month via face-to-face meetings
Qualitative feedback	After nine months' enrollment	Collect human factors engineering feedback from our participants for subsequent development work, by questioning participants at the exit interview about their experience with the cell phone and software

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada