M-Health for Teen Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Pilot

NCT ID: NCT04281719

Last Updated: 2022-04-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-08-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-08-01

Brief Summary

The study is exploring the ease and ability to integrate a mobile application in outpatient behavioral health treatment. There are two major aims to the study: 1) Determine feasibility and acceptability of integrating a mobile app into behavioral health treatment for adolescents with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, and 2) identify initial signal of effect on engagement and/or treatment outcomes among youth who use the mobile app.

Detailed Description

The purpose of the trial will be to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methodology (rate of recruitment, retention at 4-month follow-up, study procedures) as well as estimates of effect on key variables (patient engagement, patient symptoms, use of e-tools, treatment efficiency) in preparation for future studies in this line evaluating the utility of the mobile app.

Conditions

Substance Use Disorders; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Adolescent Behavior; Mental Health Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Mobile App

Youth will be assigned to interact with a novel mobile application during a course of outpatient psychotherapy for substance use disorder(s) and co-occurring mental health disorder(s).

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mobile Application (working name: Bright Path)

Intervention Type: OTHER

The Bright Path web-based mobile application is designed to target co-occurring problems, enhance patient treatment engagement, and contribute to lasting improvements in teens' mental health. The central hypothesis is that developmentally tailored mobile applications that incorporate evidence-based treatment principles can facilitate increased patient engagement in and between sessions, thus, improving the efficiency, efficacy, and reach of treatments for this highly vulnerable population.

Interventions

Mobile Application (working name: Bright Path)

The Bright Path web-based mobile application is designed to target co-occurring problems, enhance patient treatment engagement, and contribute to lasting improvements in teens' mental health. The central hypothesis is that developmentally tailored mobile applications that incorporate evidence-based treatment principles can facilitate increased patient engagement in and between sessions, thus, improving the efficiency, efficacy, and reach of treatments for this highly vulnerable population.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 14-17 years
• Current substance use disorder (SUD)
• Co-occurring mental health disorder
• Treatment-seeking
• English-speaking (Only English documents will be used throughout the course of this research study)

• Clinician delivering outpatient dual diagnosis treatment (i.e., for co-occurring SUDs and mental health disorders)
• Therapist with at least a Master's degree in a counseling related field

Exclusion Criteria

• Younger than 14 or older than 17
• Endorsement of active suicidal or homicidal ideation
• Active mania or psychosis
• Significant cognitive disability, developmental delays, or pervasive developmental disability
• No history of outpatient psychotherapy.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 17 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Health Information Technology Solutions (HITS) LLC

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Indiana University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Zachary W. Adams

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Zachary W Adams, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Indiana University School of Medicine

Other Identifiers

1908720822

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id