Mobile Interventions for the Prevention and Detection of Distress

Unity Health Toronto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Loneliness; Depression; Anxiety; Stress

Treatments: Other: Mobile Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05072210

SMH-20-037 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

ML42588 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

20-176

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stress, anxiety, distress and depression are exceptionally high among healthcare providers at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Knowledge of factors underlying distress and resilience and evidence based interventions to impact the mental wellbeing of frontline healthcare providers is limited. This study will evaluate a novel mobile platform to gather the "distress experience" of healthcare workers at Unity Health Toronto in real time during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, use automated personalized mobile interventions (e.g. routine, sleep, exercise) to nudge active/passive parameters to manage distress.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Staff or healthcare providers working at Unity Health Toronto
• 18 years of age or older
• Must own a mobile phone running Android Version 6.0 and higher, or an iPhone 6 running OS 14 and higher)

Exclusion criteria

• Non-Unity Health Toronto staff

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

Mobile Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

One half of the participants will receive personalized automated alerts throughout their involvement.

Treatment:

Other: Mobile Intervention

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

For 4 weeks, the other half of the participants will not receive personalized automated alerts. After 4 weeks, these alerts will be enabled.