Feasibility and efficacy of a transdiagnostic app-based psychological aftercare interventio
- Conditions
- Participants with various mental disorders will be recruited for the current study. Diagnosis of a mental disorder will be established according to the DSM-5 via a diagnostic interview (First et al., 2016Margraf et al., 2017).
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031700
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
Diagnosis of a mental disorder according to the DSM-5 (First et al., 2016; Margraf et al., 2017)
-Willingness and capability of participation
- Regularly ending inpatient stay in a psychiatric clinic in 2 - 4 weeks (mutual consent by inpatient clinician and patient)
-Ownership of a smartphone
- Acute suicidality
- Acute psychosis
- Acute substance abuse/intoxication
- Dementia
- Further inpatient treatment in another inpatient facility or home treatment
- Insufficient German language skills to understand the content of the app
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Rehospitalization rates during 3 months after discharge, well-being, health and disability, uptake of aftercare treatments, psychological distress, behavior activation, anxiety and depressive symptoms
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Frequency/duration of app use, therapeutic alliance, system usability, user satisfaction, treatment credibility and client expectancy, negative intervention effects, passive data (location, steps, app-usage, phone usage, calls)