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Supportive Text Messages to Reduce Mood Symptoms and Problem Drinking- Randomised Controlled Pilot Trials

NCT02327858 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 131

Last updated 2016-08-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

According to the World Health Organisation, depression and problem drinking are among the leading causes of disability worldwide. Most patients who present with problem drinking and/or depression have poor quality of life and pose a great economic burden to society due to their higher use of health services. We seek to develop a new, enhanced, efficient, innovative and cost effective treatment strategy aimed at reducing the burden that these two mental conditions impose on sufferers, their families as well as the community and health systems. In a recent pilot study of supportive text messages in Ireland conducted by the Principal Applicant and a team of researchers for patients with problem drinking and co-occurring depression, we established that patients who received twice daily supportive text messages for three months had significantly less depressive symptoms than those who did not receive such messages. There was also a trend that patients who received the supportive text messages were more likely to have higher alcohol free days than those who did not receive any supportive text messages.Our study was limited by the small number of participants and it did not examine the impact of the text messages on health services utilization. Our study did not also examine the effects of supportive text messages on those with only depression or only problem drinking. The proposed study seeks to extend the knowledge gained from the pilot study in Ireland by examining the impact of supportive text messages in the individual disorders

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Supportive text messages

Patients in all the intervention groups will receive twice daily supportive SMS text messages for 3 months. The messages will be tailored towards improving mood, compliance with medication or targeting abstinence from alcohol in accordance with the primary aims of our study. As far as possible, the majority of the text messages will reflect lessons patients usually learn during CBT and addiction counselling sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Alberta Health services

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vincent IO Agyapong, MD FRCPC · Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta

  • Serdar Dursun, PhD FRCPC · Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta

  • Andrew Greenshaw, PhD · Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-07-31
Primary Completion
2016-08-31
Completion
2016-08-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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