Using a Smartphone App to Target Current Mental Health Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression

NCT ID: NCT06037382

Last Updated: 2025-03-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 102 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-09-25
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-06

Brief Summary

This is a prevention intervention study that will examine the efficacy of a smartphone-based intervention in decreasing cancer risk by targeting mental health risk factors of anxiety and depression.

Detailed Description

This prevention intervention study aims to examine the efficacy of a smartphone-based intervention in decreasing cancer risk by targeting mental health risk factors of anxiety and depression. The study will utilize a smartphone application called Mood Triggers, designed to provide personalized feedback on individuals' maintenance factors (i.e., "triggers") of their anxiety and depressive symptoms. Mood Triggers delivers ultra-brief interventions (less than 2 minutes long) where participants view videos introducing important skills to treat their anxiety and depression. The study targets middle-aged adults (40-64 years old) who meet current criteria for moderate to severe anxiety and/or depressive disorders. It will enroll an anticipated 100 participants in a single-group, open-label design, with the intervention lasting up to 12 weeks. The primary outcomes include changes in depression and anxiety symptoms, measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-Q-IV Scale, respectively, as well as changes in cancer risk assessed by the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research Cancer Prevention Score.

Conditions

Depression; Anxiety; Cancer

Study Design

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

Study Groups

MoodTriggers App

Mood Triggers provides personalized feedback on individuals' maintenance factors (i.e., "triggers") of their anxiety and depressive symptoms based on the theory that such feedback will lead to symptom reduction. Mood Triggers delivers ultra-brief interventions (less than 2 minutes long) where participants view videos which introduce an important skill to treat their anxiety and depressive.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mood Triggers App

Intervention Type: OTHER

The current intervention will deploy a smartphone application called Mood Triggers. Mood Triggers was designed to provide personalized feedback on individuals' maintenance factors (i.e., "triggers") of their anxiety and depressive symptoms based on the theory that such feedback will lead to symptom reduction.

Interventions

Mood Triggers App

The current intervention will deploy a smartphone application called Mood Triggers. Mood Triggers was designed to provide personalized feedback on individuals' maintenance factors (i.e., "triggers") of their anxiety and depressive symptoms based on the theory that such feedback will lead to symptom reduction.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64).

2. fluent in English.

3. Able to provide informed consent.

4. Meets current criteria for an anxiety and/or depressive disorder with severity ranging from moderate to severe (based on the Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire).

5. Owns a smartphone.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Acute psychosis (based on the self-reported Structured Interview for Psychosis risk Syndromes, Prodromal Questionnaire - Brief version [SIPS PQ-B]).

2. Moderate to high suicidal ideation (based on a response of 2 or more on the PHQ-9 item-9).

3. History of bipolar disorder (based on the self-reported Mood Disorder Questionnaire [MDQ].

4. Past or current diagnoses of cancer.

5. Changes to treatments or medications in the past 30 days.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 64 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Norris Cotton Cancer Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Trustees of Dartmouth College

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Nicholas Jacobson

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Psychiatry

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Nicholas C Jacobson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College

Locations

Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

STUDY00032649

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id