Designing and Pilot Testing a Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) for Adolescent Depression Treatment in Primary Care

University of Washington

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Depression - Major Depressive Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Sidekick

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06875726

STUDY00019936

R61MH132809 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a tailored smartphone intervention called Sidekick can help improve sleep and physical activity for teenagers in depression treatment. The main question it aims to answer is:

Does Sidekick help teens improve sleep or physical activity?

Teen participants will be asked to complete surveys about how they are feeling and doing at the beginning of the study and throughout their participation. All teen participants will be able to use the Sidekick app during the study.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. English-speaking
2. 13 to 17 years old
3. PHQ-8 score ≥5
4. PHQ-8 rating of ≥1 on anhedonia, sleep, or fatigue items
5. Own a personal smartphone

Exclusion criteria

1. Active safety concerns (e.g., acute suicidal ideation)
2. Diagnosed developmental disability (e.g., autism spectrum)
3. Primary mental health diagnosis other than MDD according to baseline Mini-international Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) (comorbidity allowed when MDD primary)
4. Sleep disorder from another medical cause
5. Inability to engage in moderate exercise because of medical concerns;

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Treatment arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sidekick