Calling for Care: Cell Phones for Mood Telemetry in Teens

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Borderline Personality Disorder; Bipolar Disorder; Cyclothymia

Treatments: Other: Mental health telemetry (MHT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01083823

364-2007

Details and patient eligibility

About

We will modify our existing VMQ/VADIS mood telemetry software to run on a Motorola platform, and enhance it to collect information on both mood symptoms (currently covered by the VMQ/VADIS) as well as daily life stressors (currently outside the VMQ/VADIS' scope). By doing so, we will be able us to examine the role of daily stressors in the lives of teens with and without mood swings, to identify how changes in mood triggered by stressful events are similar to or different from mood changes linked to the bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, or other forms of affective instability.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 14-20yrs,
• Either (i) self-reported healthy with no past / present history of substance use problems OR (ii) self-reported severe mood swings interfering with daily life.
• Fluent in English.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to be trained successfully on the MHT software or to complete questionnaires without assistance.
• Unwillingness to sign / maintain a contract with a cell phone service provider.
• Lack of parental assent / willingness to act as guarantor for cell phone provider contract

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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33 participants in 2 patient groups

Self-reported mood swings

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants who self-identify as experiencing severe mood swings that interfere with life.

Treatment:

Other: Mental health telemetry (MHT)

Healthy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants who self-identify as not experiencing mood swings in the past or at present and who deny past / present problems with substance use.

Treatment:

Other: Mental health telemetry (MHT)