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Stay Well at Home: a Text-messaging Study Social Distancing

NCT04473599 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2023-05-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators have developed supportive text-messages in English and Spanish to help people cope with the stress and anxiety of COVID-19 social distancing. The purpose of this study is to examine if automated text-messages will improve depression and anxiety symptoms and enhance positive mood.

Additionally, the investigators will compare the effectiveness of sending messages on a random schedule (using a micro-randomized trial design) or sent by a reinforcement learning policy on overall change in depression and anxiety symptoms and daily mood during the 8-week study.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Uniform random message delivery

In this arm, the categories and timings of text-messages will be delivered to participants using a random schedule

BEHAVIORAL

Reinforcement learning message delivery

In this arm, the categories and timings of text-messages will be chosen by a reinforcement learning algorithm

BEHAVIORAL

Mood ratings only

In this arm, participants will monitor their mood daily and receive feedback on that mood randomly

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Adrian Aguilera, PhD · UC Berkeley

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-04-17
Primary Completion
2022-07-25
Completion
2023-01-10

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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