Mental Health Symptom Monitoring Utilizing the Cogito Behavioral Analytic Platform

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Feasibility; Mental Health Issue; Acceptability of Health Care; Cell Phone Use; Mobile Applications

Treatments: Behavioral: Cogito Companion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT04150354

16-0109

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this project is to test the acceptability and feasibility of a mobile application to facilitate mental health symptom monitoring and follow-up among Veterans. During the course of the study, the research application will be installed on participants' mobile phone. The application on the participants' phone will be recording data about their behavior. Participants will also be asked to complete bi-weekly surveys via the app.

Enrollment: 107 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Veterans between the ages 18-89 years of age at the time of enrollment
• able to provide signed and dated informed consent
• has anandroid platform phone and is willing to use phone and personal data plan to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in conflicting Rocky Mountain MIRECC interventional protocol

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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107 participants in 1 patient group

Participants allocated to Cogito Companion

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will have access the Cogito Companion for a three-month period post-consent. Passive data collection will also occur during this period. As a secure, privacy-compliant mobile app, the Cogito Companion facilitates the non-invasive collection, transfer, integration, analysis, and reporting of objective behavioral indicators.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cogito Companion