Smartwatches to Manage Stress and Anxiety in Residential Settings

Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Technology; Baseline

Treatments: Device: Smartwatch

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04878965

011-2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to conduct a prospective evaluation of a smartwatch technology and an associated application (developed by Awake Labs) in a clinical cohort from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Adult Neurodevelopmental Services (ANS) and adults with developmental disabilities in the community who have received a watch.

Full description

Tools that help predict the onset of anxiety and agitation can not only help a person learn to self-monitor their emotions, but can may also help others feel more efficacious in understanding the internal state of the person they are supporting (especially if not able to communicate), and help them respond in a way that keeps the individual and others safe.

The purpose of the study is to conduct a prospective evaluation of the smartwatch technology with modifications recommended by the researchers (based on a previous retrospective study) in a clinical cohort at CAMH Adult Neurodevelopmental Services (ANS) and in adults with developmental disabilities in the community.

Specifically, this study seeks to evaluate the utility and validity of the smartwatch and associated mobile application as a clinical tool by gathering behavioral data when the applications gives a notification. The person wearing the watch or those in their environment will be asked to report the following in the application after the smartwatch gives a notification: 1) the valence of the emotion of the person wearing the smartwatch, 2) what events were occurring prior to notification (e.g., potential triggers for behaviours that challenge), and 3) what happened after the notification (e.g., how the person or others in their environment responded to the notification).

Results will be used to inform future iterations of the technology and make recommendations for clinical use.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• individuals with an intellectual and/or developmental disability
• living in the community or receiving services from CAMH ANS department

Exclusion criteria

• Under 18 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 1 patient group

Smartwatch

Other group

Description:

Individuals receiving the smartwatch

Treatment:

Device: Smartwatch