A Smartphone Intervention With Telemedicine Support for Management of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Trial

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: PostTraumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Other: Clinician supported smartphone application intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02956902

16-107IF

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study tests whether people receiving clinician support to use a mobile application on their smartphone can manage their post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms better than those who do not. Half of the participants will receive the clinician supported smartphone application intervention and the other half will remain on the waiting list.

Enrollment: 67 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• on the waiting list for the Ontario Shores traumatic stress clinic;
• score ≥ 31 on the PCL-5
• have access to a smartphone or tablet to which they are willing to download the app.

Exclusion criteria

• active suicidal ideation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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67 participants in 2 patient groups

Waiting list control

No Intervention group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Clinician-supported smartphone application intervention

Treatment:

Other: Clinician supported smartphone application intervention