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Therapy and Tech Study

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University of California Irvine (UCI)

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Major Depressive Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Treatments

Behavioral: Chatbot Therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT07225192
STUDY00000488
4R33AT010606 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators want to test if gen AI can support therapy by recruiting patients already in therapy.

Full description

Recent advancements in AI have led to chatbots, such as ChatGPT, capable of providing therapeutic responses. Early research evaluating chatbots' ability to provide relationship advice and single-session relationship interventions has showed that both laypeople and relationship therapists rate them high on attributes such as empathy and helpfulness. The investigators want to test if chatbots can be a good adjunct to traditional therapy. The investigators hypothesize that participants who regularly use a chatbot as an adjunct to traditional therapy will have better mental health outcomes. Participants will complete baseline, 4-week (post-intervention) and 4-week post-intervention measures and will be invited to gain their therapists ratings.

Enrollment

204 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • 18+
  • US Resident
  • English-speaking
  • Self-report having been treated for or diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder or major depressive disorder by a licensed provider (e.g., MD, DO, LPCC, LCSW, LMFT) in the past 12 months
  • Self-report currently being in individual therapy

Exclusion criteria

  • Ever diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or hospitalized for suicidality

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

204 participants in 2 patient groups

Chatbot Therapy Group
Experimental group
Description:
Group 1 will be asked to use an AI chatbot like chatgpt as an adjunct to their regular therapy
Treatment:
Behavioral: Chatbot Therapy
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Group 2 will be asked to continue their regular therapy as usual.

Trial contacts and locations

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