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Smartphone App for Serious Mental Illness

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Recruiting

Led By Alexander Stehle Young, MD MSHS

Research Sponsored by VA Office of Research and Development

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 3 and 9 months

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial is testing whether a smartphone app can help people with serious mental illness by monitoring their activities, sociability, and sleep.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for adult Veterans at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Healthcare Center diagnosed with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder. Participants must have had a risk of symptom exacerbation in the past year and own a smartphone with a data plan.Check my eligibility

What is being tested?

The study tests an app that uses mobile phone data to monitor sociability, activity, and sleep as indicators of mental health status. It aims to detect early signs of relapse in patients with serious mental illnesses for timely intervention.See study design

What are the potential side effects?

Since this trial involves using a mobile application for self-tracking without any medication or invasive procedures involved, there are no direct physical side effects expected from participating.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 3 and 9 months

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~3 and 9 months

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 3 and 9 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Acceptability of passive self-tracking of mental health change

Estimates of activities

Estimates of sleep

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Trial Design

1Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Group I: mobile applicationExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Participants use a mobile application on their smartphone

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Who is running the clinical trial?

VA Office of Research and DevelopmentLead Sponsor

1,611 Previous Clinical Trials

3,305,159 Total Patients Enrolled

17 Trials studying Bipolar Disorder

2,461 Patients Enrolled for Bipolar Disorder

Alexander Stehle Young, MD MSHSPrincipal InvestigatorVA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA

2 Previous Clinical Trials

1,510 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Mobile Self-Tracking Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT05023252 — N/A

Bipolar Disorder Research Study Groups: mobile application

Bipolar Disorder Clinical Trial 2023: Mobile Self-Tracking Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT05023252 — N/A

Mobile Self-Tracking 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT05023252 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

How many individuals are presently partaking in this experimental research?

"Affirmative. According to the information published on clinicaltrials.gov, this experiment is at present recruiting participants. The trial was first made visible on October 18th of 2021 and has been revised as recently as October 5th 2022. They are attempting to find 125 patients from 1 centre for the study."

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Are new participants being accepted for this experimental trial?

"Affirmative. Documentation on clinicaltrials.gov reveals that, since its October 18th 2021 posting date, this medical trial is currently enlisting participants for a 1-site study with 125 total enrollees."

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