Understanding Daily Changes in BDD Risk Using Smartphones

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Body Dysmorphic Disorders

Treatments: Other: None, observational study only (no interventions)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04254575

2019P002041

Details and patient eligibility

About

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is associated with high risk for suicide attempts (22-28%) and substance use disorders (49%), underscoring the importance of accurate, real-time risk detection in BDD. This study aims to use smartphone-based digital phenotyping to develop and validate unobtrusive, time-sensitive, and ecologically valid measures of key risk factors for suicide and substance misuse in BDD: negative affect states. As next steps, this research can be extended to detect risk transdiagnostically, with the goal of enabling just-in-time interventions to target suicide and substance misuse across psychiatric illnesses.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults age >=18
• Current primary diagnosis of BDD
• BDD severity >= moderate
• Living in US
• English proficiency
• Owns an Android or iOS (Apple) smartphone
• Has regular Wifi-enabled internet access for data downloads

Trial design

87 participants in 1 patient group

body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

Description:

Adults with a current primary diagnosis of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

Treatment:

Other: None, observational study only (no interventions)