Understanding the Efficacy of Mobile Apps as Intervention for Depression in Adults When Deployed as Part of Primary Care.

Actualize Therapy

Status: Completed

Conditions: Primary Health Care; Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: IntelliCare

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03500536

Main

Details and patient eligibility

About

The clinical study is meant to optimize the mobile intervention, to develop a robust implementation plan for the mobile intervention within primary care, and to conduct an effectiveness trial, randomizing 128 participants in order to understand effect on severity of depression and anxiety symptoms, cost-effectiveness, and usability of mobile apps.

Enrollment: 146 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Positive screen on PHQ-9

Exclusion criteria

• Does not own or use a mobile smart phone

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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146 participants in 2 patient groups

Waitlist Control

No Intervention group

Description:

8 weeks of treatment as usual followed by 8 weeks of IntelliCare treatment.

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

8 weeks of IntelliCare treatment followed by 8 weeks of treatment as usual.

Treatment:

Behavioral: IntelliCare