Care Coordination and Mobile Monitoring for Mental Illness

(CCM Trial)

Not yet recruiting at 1 trial location
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Overseen ByAlexander S Young, MD MSHS
Age: 18+
Sex: Any
Trial Phase: Academic
Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
No Placebo GroupAll trial participants will receive the active study treatment (no placebo)

What You Need to Know Before You Apply

What is the purpose of this trial?

Providing care to individuals with serious mental illness can be challenging, requiring ongoing monitoring, treatment adjustments, and coordination of various medical and social services. Rates of emergency service and hospital use are high due to unexpected social, medical, and mental health crises. Stressors and poor adherence with treatment are common and can lead to rapid worsening in symptoms, job loss, homelessness, incarceration, or suicide. Clinician visits can be infrequent. Patient-clinician contact between visits is challenging and often nonexistent. As such, illness exacerbations usually occur with no clinician awareness in real time, leaving limited opportunity to provide services. Clinicians need interventions that are capable of monitoring and quickly detecting worsening behaviors and illness, to improve care coordination, outreach, and treatment. This project studies the effectiveness of enhanced care coordination using passive mobile data monitoring and support from peer specialists, with the goal of improving outcomes and reducing the need for acute care.

Who Is on the Research Team?

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Alexander Stehle Young, MD MSHS

Principal Investigator

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA

Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?

Inclusion Criteria

A medical record diagnosis of Serious Mental Illness (SMI) defined as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder
Receipt of care at the VA site during the prior 9 months
Ownership of a smart phone
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Exclusion Criteria

I have no additional conditions or requirements.

Timeline for a Trial Participant

Screening

Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial

2-4 weeks

Treatment

Enhanced care coordination using passive mobile data monitoring and support from peer specialists

9 months
Regular monitoring through mobile data and peer support

Follow-up

Participants are monitored for safety and effectiveness after treatment

4 weeks

What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?

Interventions

  • Care Coordination

How Is the Trial Designed?

2

Treatment groups

Active Control

Group I: CCMActive Control1 Intervention
Group II: Usual careActive Control1 Intervention

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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?

VA Office of Research and Development

Lead Sponsor

Trials
1,691
Recruited
3,759,000+