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Combining mHealth and Nurse-delivered Care to Improve the Outcomes of People With Serious Mental Illness in West Africa

NCT05703711 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 360

Last updated 2024-07-25

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Summary

In West Africa, most people with serious mental illness receive care from traditional or faith healers at prayer camps. The stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a dual-pronged intervention package comprised of a mobile health program designed to train healers to deliver evidence-based psychosocial interventions combined with pharmacotherapy delivered directly to the patients at their prayer camps via a visiting nurse in Ghana.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

mHealer

MHealer is a software application installed on smartphones that provides psychosocial treatment support and patient condition tracking.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD · University of Washington

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-25
Primary Completion
2027-05-31
Completion
2027-05-31

Countries

  • Ghana

Study Locations

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