Wellness Through Mobile Health

NCT ID: NCT04640090

Last Updated: 2021-12-01

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-08-12

Study Completion Date

2021-09-14

Brief Summary

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This pilot project will evaluate the potential of an affordable smartphone app to improve users' mental well-being.

Detailed Description

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The goal of this pilot study is to evaluate whether a smartphone wellness application has the potential to improve anxiety and depression symptoms in people who otherwise would not have access to behavioral health care. In this pilot study, participants will include patients who present to an orthopedic specialist for chronic musculoskeletal pain and who also endorse elevated anxiety and/or depression symptoms. Patients who otherwise do not have access to adequate behavioral health resources will be eligible to enroll in the study. Through the study, participants will have two months of full access to a commercially available smartphone wellness application which offers resources such as cognitive behavioral therapy via an artificial chatbot, mindfulness and deep breathing training, and text-based access to a human well-being coach. Participants' baseline and 2-month follow-up anxiety and depression symptoms will be compared. Qualitative feedback regarding the user experience with the smartphone application will also be collected.

Conditions

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Musculoskeletal Diseases Chronic Pain Anxiety Disorders Depression

Keywords

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Musculoskeletal disease Chronic pain Behavioral health Anxiety Depression Mobile health Smartphone application

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Smartphone app

All participants in this single-arm study will receive two months of subsidized, full access to the smartphone wellness application.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Smartphone app (Wysa)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The commercially available smartphone application, Wysa, offers evidence-based wellness tools such as supportive listening, deep breathing techniques, guided meditation, yoga, and more. Users can communicate via text to a virtual artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot and/or a human well-being coach.

Interventions

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Smartphone app (Wysa)

The commercially available smartphone application, Wysa, offers evidence-based wellness tools such as supportive listening, deep breathing techniques, guided meditation, yoga, and more. Users can communicate via text to a virtual artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot and/or a human well-being coach.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Presentation to an orthopedic specialist at the Washington University Living Well Center for a musculoskeletal condition
* Score of 55 or higher on Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Depression and/or Anxiety measures
* Advised to consider behavioral health treatment as a component of comprehensive care for a musculoskeletal condition
* Cannot or does not wish to pursue in-person behavioral health treatment (e.g., with the center psychologist)

Exclusion Criteria

* No access to an electronic device (such as a smartphone) to download and use the wellness app and to electronically complete follow-up self-reported health measures
* In active mental health crisis (e.g., suicidal/homicidal thoughts, psychosis) which would require an escalated level of care
* Initiating care with a behavioral health specialist
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Washington University School of Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

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Other Identifiers

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202005219

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id