OcupApp: Occupational Self-analysis Intervention Through an Mobile Application

NCT ID: NCT05867823

Last Updated: 2023-05-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 134 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-09-15
• Study Completion Date: 2024-07-01

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of the use of mobile application ("OcupApp") to generate a personal self-analysis about meaningful activities in which adults between the ages of 50 and 70 with anxiety and subclinical depression participant.

A randomized study will be carried out comparing the effects of the use of the application "OcupApp" with a control intervention on the quality of life related to health, mental health, frequency of participation on meaningful activities, and perceived occupational balance.

Detailed Description

OcupApp is a mobile application developed within the research team, which aims to promote occupational self-analysis in adults with depression and/or anxiety. The mobile application allows to offer feedback to participants about the meaning of the activities they carry out daily and their perception of occupational balance, which generates a subjective self-reflection that can lead to the implementation of some personal changes in their weekly routine. For this, the person must register the activities they carry out throughout a week and mark each one of them with a punctuation related to the meaning of the following dimensions: identity, pleasure, competence, importance and value of the activity by other people. The punctuation give will be on a Likert-type scale from 1 to 5. The application also allows to collect other information such as where the activity takes place, its duration, and the people with whom it is carried out. Also, at the end of the week, the application will ask users about their perceived occupational balance. All the information registered in the mobile application will be returned to the person in a dynamic and understandable way. Based on this, the person can establish two goals to accomplish. In this sense, OcupApp will offer personalized recommendations based on the objectives to be achieved related to the dimensions of meaning.

Conditions

Anxiety Disorder; Depressive Disorder; Occupational Therapy; Mobile App

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

OcuApp Users

the experimental group will use a movile aplication (OcuApp), to generate a personal self-analisys about meaningful activities.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

OcuApp

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The participants will have instaled a mobile aplication (OcuApp) by a member of the researchs team who will teach them how to use it. The person must register the activities they carry out throughout a week and mark each one of them with a punctuation (from 1 to 5) related to the meaning of the following dimensions: identity, pleasure, competence, importance and value of the activity by other people.The application also allows to collect other information such as where the activity takes place, its duration, and the people with whom it is carried out. Also, at the end of the week, the application will ask users about their perceived occupational balance. All the information registered in the mobile application will be returned to the person in a dynamic and understandable way. Based on this, the person can establish two goals to accomplish. In this sense, OcupApp will offer personalized recommendations based on the objectives to be achieved related to the dimensions of meaning.

Three-part work users

The intervention on the control group will focus on offering to the participants an informative three-part work on the positive effects of performing activities.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Three-part work

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention on the control group will focus on offering to the participants an informative three-part work on the positive effects of performing activities to control anxiety and depression. After providing this information, any doubts in this regard will be answered.

Interventions

OcuApp

The participants will have instaled a mobile aplication (OcuApp) by a member of the researchs team who will teach them how to use it. The person must register the activities they carry out throughout a week and mark each one of them with a punctuation (from 1 to 5) related to the meaning of the following dimensions: identity, pleasure, competence, importance and value of the activity by other people.The application also allows to collect other information such as where the activity takes place, its duration, and the people with whom it is carried out. Also, at the end of the week, the application will ask users about their perceived occupational balance. All the information registered in the mobile application will be returned to the person in a dynamic and understandable way. Based on this, the person can establish two goals to accomplish. In this sense, OcupApp will offer personalized recommendations based on the objectives to be achieved related to the dimensions of meaning.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Three-part work

The intervention on the control group will focus on offering to the participants an informative three-part work on the positive effects of performing activities to control anxiety and depression. After providing this information, any doubts in this regard will be answered.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Have a smarthphone and know how to use mobile apps to exchange information.
• Have a low or moderate depression (DEP 5 <= 4) or low or moderate anxiety (ANX5 <= 3) or DEP5 or ANX5 =3).

Exclusion Criteria

• Have a serious mental illness or psychosis.
• Have a diagnosis of dementia
• Have language problems or cognitive alterations that doesn't allow comprehension of assessment tools.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 50 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Malaga

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

María Rodríguez Bailón

"OcupApp": Development and effectiveness of a mobile application for the involvement in meaningful activities in the elderly population.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

B1-2020_25

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id