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Digital Data in Mental Health Therapy

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University of Pennsylvania

Status

Completed

Conditions

Depressive Symptoms
Anxiety Generalized

Treatments

Behavioral: Digital data

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Use of Patient Electronic Communication in Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment intends to better understand how digital data, social media, and electronic communication can be used in mental health therapy.

Enrollment

115 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  1. Between 18-65 years of age
  2. Primarily English speaking (for language analysis)
  3. Willing to share at least one digital data source this includes Facebook, Google searches, YouTube searches, or screen time by downloading a free application (app) on their smartphone.
  4. Regular activity viewing and posting on social media sites, defined as once a month posting
  5. Has a mental or behavioral health provider and/or has a provider from the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists and currently enrolled in mental or behavioral therapy
  6. Attends therapy at least once a month and intends to remain in therapy for the next three months
  7. Willing to share dashboard with their behavioral health provider
  8. Able to provide informed consent
  9. Owns a smartphone
  10. If the patient downloads an app, they are willing to download and keep an app on their phone for 3 months

Exclusion criteria

  1. Under 18 years of age
  2. Non-English speaker
  3. Patient is in severe distress, e.g. respiratory, physical, or emotional distress
  4. Patient is intoxicated, unconscious, or unable to appropriately respond to questions
  5. Not currently enrolled in mental therapy
  6. Not expected to remain in mental therapy for the next three months
  7. Not a regular social media poster, or does not use Facebook and/or Instagram and/or not willing to share
  8. Unwilling to share social media summary dashboard with behavioral health provider
  9. Patient with diagnosed psychosis
  10. Does not own a smartphone
  11. Unwilling to download and keep an app on their phone for 3 months

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

115 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will receive a personalized digital data dashboards throughout the two-month study period.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Digital data
Usual Care
No Intervention group
Description:
Usual care

Trial documents
1

Trial contacts and locations

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