CopeSmart: Using Mobile Technology to Promote Positive Mental Health in Young People

University College Dublin

Status: Completed

Conditions: General Mental Health and Well-Being

Treatments: Device: CopeSmart

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02265978

GOIPG/2013/450

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a mental health mobile app (CopeSmart) in promoting positive mental health through emotional self-awareness in adolescents. Participants will be recruited from second-level schools in Ireland. Schools will be randomly assigned to the intervention or control condition. Participants in the intervention condition will use CopeSmart for a four week period. Those in the control condition will not use any mental health app.

Enrollment: 387 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be between 14 and 19 years
• Must be enrolled in second-level education
• Must have access to an iPhone, iTouch or Android mobile device
• Must obtain signed parental consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

• No parental consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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387 participants in 2 patient groups

CopeSmart

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: CopeSmart

Control

No Intervention group