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Withdrawn Not applicable Interventional

Mobile Apps for the Treatment of Depression

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02024620

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Official title

Evaluation of Mood Coach in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

Brief summary

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Smartphone applications (apps) may be well-suited as a low cost adjunctive tool for increasing the adherence of individuals to psychotherapy treatments which may subsequently increase symptom reduction and improve clinical outcomes. Apps offer the opportunity for real-time tracking of behavior and have the ability to provide prompt feedback and reminders in a convenient, readily available technology. The immediacy and convenience of apps may be responsible for the observed improvements in adherence on the part of the patients relative to traditional paper-and-pencil tracking and practice of skills taught in psychotherapy. These features are relevant to behavioral activation (BA) protocols, the effects of which are often attenuated by failure to adhere to regular practice and tracking of behavior. The Mood Coach app is a BA protocol developed to provide a convenient means of planning and tracking activity, and monitoring mood responses to scheduled increases in activity. This project evaluates the utility of this app as an adjunct to standard BA treatment. The investigators predict that participants assigned to the BA+app condition will demonstrate greater adherence to the BA treatment compared to the standard BA condition. The investigators also predict that the participants in the BA+app condition will report greater satisfaction with the app compared to the standard BA protocol that utilizes paper and pencil materials.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02024620
Recruitment status
Withdrawn
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
Not listed

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 89 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Feb 28, 2014
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2014
Completion
Sep 30, 2014
Last update posted
Dec 14, 2015

2014

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System North Little Rock Arkansas 72114

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