M-Health for Teen Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Pilot

Indiana University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Mental Health Disorder; Substance Use Disorders; Adolescent Behavior

Treatments: Other: Mobile Application (working name: Bright Path)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04281719

1908720822

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is exploring the ease and ability to integrate a mobile application in outpatient behavioral health treatment. There are two major aims to the study: 1) Determine feasibility and acceptability of integrating a mobile app into behavioral health treatment for adolescents with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, and 2) identify initial signal of effect on engagement and/or treatment outcomes among youth who use the mobile app.

Full description

The purpose of the trial will be to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methodology (rate of recruitment, retention at 4-month follow-up, study procedures) as well as estimates of effect on key variables (patient engagement, patient symptoms, use of e-tools, treatment efficiency) in preparation for future studies in this line evaluating the utility of the mobile app.

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for Adolescents:

• Aged 14-17 years
• Current substance use disorder (SUD)
• Co-occurring mental health disorder
• Treatment-seeking
• English-speaking (Only English documents will be used throughout the course of this research study)

Exclusion Criteria for Adolescents:

• Younger than 14 or older than 17
• Endorsement of active suicidal or homicidal ideation
• Active mania or psychosis
• Significant cognitive disability, developmental delays, or pervasive developmental disability
• No history of outpatient psychotherapy.

Inclusion Criteria for Providers

• Clinician delivering outpatient dual diagnosis treatment (i.e., for co-occurring SUDs and mental health disorders)
• Therapist with at least a Master's degree in a counseling related field

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Mobile App

Experimental group

Description:

Youth will be assigned to interact with a novel mobile application during a course of outpatient psychotherapy for substance use disorder(s) and co-occurring mental health disorder(s).

Treatment:

Other: Mobile Application (working name: Bright Path)