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Mobile Apps for the Treatment of Depression

NCT02024620 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2015-12-15

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Summary

Smartphone applications (apps) may be well-suited as a low cost adjunctive tool for increasing the adherence of individuals to psychotherapy treatments which may subsequently increase symptom reduction and improve clinical outcomes. Apps offer the opportunity for real-time tracking of behavior and have the ability to provide prompt feedback and reminders in a convenient, readily available technology. The immediacy and convenience of apps may be responsible for the observed improvements in adherence on the part of the patients relative to traditional paper-and-pencil tracking and practice of skills taught in psychotherapy. These features are relevant to behavioral activation (BA) protocols, the effects of which are often attenuated by failure to adhere to regular practice and tracking of behavior. The Mood Coach app is a BA protocol developed to provide a convenient means of planning and tracking activity, and monitoring mood responses to scheduled increases in activity. This project evaluates the utility of this app as an adjunct to standard BA treatment. The investigators predict that participants assigned to the BA+app condition will demonstrate greater adherence to the BA treatment compared to the standard BA condition. The investigators also predict that the participants in the BA+app condition will report greater satisfaction with the app compared to the standard BA protocol that utilizes paper and pencil materials.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral activation plus mobile app

BEHAVIORAL

Standard behavioral activation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Center for PTSD

    collaborator FED

  • Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Robert E Brady, Ph.D. · Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
89 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2014-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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