Digital Navigators for Acceptance and Competence Development with Mental Health Apps

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if and how so called "Digital Navigators" (DN) can help general practitioners, outpatient psychiatrists and psychologists as well as their treated patients to use digital mental health apps (DiGAs) and integrate it into their treatment. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* What are the chances and implementation barriers of DN?
* What are the acceptance and expectations towards DN?
* Do DN affect the psychological health of patients?
* Do DN affect the digital health literacy and technical competence of participants?

Employees of medical teams (e.g. medical assistants) receive training to become a DN. Afterwards patients are accompanied and supported by the DN for 12 weeks to select and use a suitable app for their mental disorder.

Conditions

• Acceptability of Health Care
• Engagement, Patient
• Nurse's Role
• Mental Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Support from Digital Navigators to Treatment Team

The trained professionals (the Digital Navigators) support the treatment teams in the study centers in the selection and integration of suitable apps and digital health applications (DiGAs).

BEHAVIORAL

Support from Digital Navigators to Patients

The trained professionals (the Digital Navigators) accompany and support the selected patients to find a suitable app for them and integrate it into their treatment.

BEHAVIORAL

Training for Digital Navigators

The training takes place in the six study centers and is preferably aimed at medical assistants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

  collaborator OTHER

• Hannover Medical School

  collaborator OTHER

• Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Martin Heinze, Prof · Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-07-15

Primary Completion

2025-05-31

Completion

2025-07-14

Countries

• Germany

Study Locations