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Does Adding a Tailored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Mobile Skills App Mediate Rates of Depression

NCT04002063 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2025-10-27

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Summary

Depression is a common psychological disorder seen in 18.5% of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and Operation New Dawn (OND) Veterans. Improving the rate of depression recovery and remission is vital to enhance OEF/OIF/OND Veteran's ability to improve work and home adjustment and overall quality of life. OEF/OIF/OND Veterans have reported many barriers to following through with Cognitive therapy skills practice assignments, a key component of CBT therapy, the leading therapy for depression in the VA. Smartphone apps have been identified as a useful widely-used tool to improve the effectiveness of psychological treatments. The investigators propose a full-scale multi-site randomized clinical trial (RCT) to measure the efficacy of CBT-D enhanced with CBT MobileWork-V, a comprehensive CBT skill training smartphone app (the experimental arm) for improving CBT understanding and skill acquisition and depressive symptoms, in OEF/OIF Veterans with depression compared to standard CBT-D.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CBT MobileWork-V plus CBT

a smartphone app to assist with CBT homework skills practice plus CBT

BEHAVIORAL

CBT alone

CBT therapy individual

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center

    collaborator FED

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Judith Ann Callan, PhD RN · VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-10
Primary Completion
2024-03-31
Completion
2024-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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