The Effectiveness of Engagement-based Personalization of a Digital Mental Health Intervention

University of Twente

Status: Completed

Conditions: Well-being

Treatments: Behavioral: non-personalized 2-week mobile wellbeing intervention; Behavioral: personalized 2-week mobile wellbeing intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05300906

Personalization Trial

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will investigate the effectiveness of an engagement-based personalized 2-week mobile wellbeing intervention, vs the effectiveness of a non-personalized 2-week mobile wellbeing intervention.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least mild depressive or anxiety complaints; >4 Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale OR Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item scale
• access to smartphone with internet
• adequate English literacy

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Personalized

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the personalized arm will receive the optimal combination of content, feedback and design, based on their baseline engagement scores.

Treatment:

Behavioral: personalized 2-week mobile wellbeing intervention

non-personalized

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in the non-personalized arm will receive a randomly selected version of the 27 possible interventions, regardless of their baseline engagement scores.

Treatment:

Behavioral: non-personalized 2-week mobile wellbeing intervention