Testing an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot for Mental Health
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 210
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Anxiety Symptoms
研究概览
简要总结
The research team would like to test how efficacious an artificial intelligence chatbot is in delivering supportive behavioral interventions in populations with anxiety, depression, or eating concerns.
详细描述
The research team has developed a deep learning-powered application that can provide support and therapeutic suggestions via natural dialogue. The chatbot is designed to be highly scalable such that it could address access issues (to address the majority of persons who do not not have access to therapy). Eventually, it is hoped this intervention can provide accessible therapy for those with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, among other mental illnesses. The chatbot has been trained with intervention-oriented text conversations written by research assistants, employing a variety of therapeutic techniques, including cognitive-behavioral therapy. The research team hopes to test how well the chatbot can respond and aid those with mental health symptoms. The chatbot's effectiveness will be monitored based on the participants' interactions with the chatbot, as well as the participants' scores on the PHQ-9, GAD-IV, SWED, and general satisfactory questionnaires.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •We will recruit participants online using Facebook, Google Ads, Reddit, MTurk, listservs, and other online platforms.
- •These individuals must meet the criteria for anxiety, depression or disordered eating, according to the PHQ-9, GADQ-IV, and SWED 3.0.
排除标准
- •Individuals currently being treated for active suicidality (measured with C-SSRS), Bipolar I/II, and active psychosis will be excluded from the study.
结局指标
主要结局
Anxiety Symptoms
时间窗: Each participant in the anxiety cohort will fill out an anxiety questionnaire to establish baseline symptoms, and they will fill out this questionnaire again after 4 and 8 weeks of using the therapy chatbot to track changes in their symptoms.
Anxiety symptoms will be measured with the GAD-IV.
Depressive Symptoms
时间窗: Each participant in the depression cohort will fill out a questionnaire to establish baseline symptoms, and they will fill out this questionnaire again after 4 and 8 weeks of using the therapy chatbot to track changes in their symptoms.
Depressive symptoms will be measured with the PHQ-9.
Eating Disorders Symptoms
时间窗: Each participant in the eating disorders cohort will fill out a questionnaire to establish baseline symptoms, and they will fill out this questionnaire again after 4 and 8 weeks of using the therapy chatbot to track changes in their symptoms.
Eating Disorders symptoms will be measured with the SWED.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Nicholas C. Jacobson
Dr. Nicholas Jacobson
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center