Ecological Momentary Assessment and Text Message Intervention for Stress Management

Click Therapeutics

Status: Completed

Conditions: Loneliness; Covid19; Stress, Psychological; Stress

Treatments: Other: EMA Alone; Other: EMA + EMA and FACE Stress

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04907942

DL-FACE-101

Details and patient eligibility

About

Feasibility and acceptability of an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) compared with an EMA plus automated text message intervention for stress management

Full description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) compared with an EMA plus automated text message intervention for stress management in participants with higher-than-average perceived stress conducted in a remote setting.

Study details include:

Study Duration: 7 months Intervention Duration: 3 weeks

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age 22 years or older
2. Must reside in an Eastern Standard Time or Central Standard Time zone
3. Able to read and write in English as demonstrated by review and completion of an Informed Consent Form
4. Own an SMS enabled smartphone
5. Scoring >5 on the 4-item Perceived Stress Scale (reflecting higher-than-average perceived stress)

Exclusion criteria

1. Reported cognitive impairment and/or psychiatric disorders of the psychotic spectrum
2. Enrolled in another support study
3. Currently receiving psychotherapy through telehealth
4. PHQ-9 score of 20 or greater.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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81 participants in 2 patient groups

1 week EMA followed by 2weeks of EMA and automated text messages of stress and coping

Active Comparator group

Description:

1 weeks of EMA (2 daily surveys per day waking hours to evaluate momentary affects) plus 2 weeks of EMA in combination of automated text messages delivered twice a day, which content follows constructs from The Transactional Model of Stress and Coping (FACE STRESS)

Treatment:

Other: EMA + EMA and FACE Stress

Control of EMA alone

Other group

Description:

3 weeks of EMA, consisting of 2 surveys per day delivered via text message and email during waking hours to prompt participants to complete the survey.

Treatment:

Other: EMA Alone