Dance Mental Health App

University of California San Diego

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Ankle Injury; Foot Injury; Lower Extremity Injury

Treatments: Device: Mental Health App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07219095

812643

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims to enhance self-compassion in adolescent dancers recovering from a foot and ankle injury by incorporating the use of a mental health intervention app using gamified design during their recovery.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Provision of informed consent (adult participant), or consent of parent/legal guardian in conjunction with adolescent assent (minor participant)
2. 13 to 18 years of age
3. Endorses dance as their primary sport, or participates 3 days per week or greater in dance prior to injury
4. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures including the intervention regimen and availability for the duration of the study
5. Access to a device with which the SuperBetter app can be downloaded and used

Exclusion criteria

1. Dance is not a primary sport or less than 3 days per week spent dancing prior to injury (skater, gymnast, other sport)
2. Requiring surgery or prior surgery for the injury being treated
3. Injury outside of the leg below the knee
4. Known eating disorder or bone density issue (documented abnormal Z score and/or eating disorder diagnosis upon review of the medical chart)
5. Verbalized plans to not return to dance after recovery from the injury

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

SuperBetter Arm

Experimental group

Description:

Those randomized into the treatment group will be completing gamified mental health exercises in an app called SuperBetter for 10 minutes, 5 days per week, for 12 weeks alongside physical therapy.

Treatment:

Device: Mental Health App

Control Arm

No Intervention group

Description:

Those randomized into the observation group need only attend their physical therapy appointments and complete the questionnaires but will not use the mental health app.