N/A
N=115
Digital Data in Mental Health Therapy
Depressive Symptoms · Anxiety Generalized
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04011540 ↗Enrolled (actual)
115
Serious AEs
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Results posted
May 2024
Primary outcome: Primary: Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL), RAND 36-Item Health Survey Changed Value (Baseline to 2 Months) — -0.89; -1.85 score on a scale
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Digital data (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Primary completion
- Dec 2021
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL), RAND 36-Item Health Survey Changed Value (Baseline to 2 Months) |
-0.89; -1.85 | — |
| SECONDARY Depressive Symptoms, Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) Change Value |
-1.20; -0.44 | — |
| SECONDARY Anxiety Symptoms, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) Change Value |
-0.90; -1.14 | — |
| SECONDARY Therapeutic Relationship, Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) Change Value |
0.36; -0.65 | — |
Summary
The Use of Patient Electronic Communication in Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment intends to better understand how digital data, social media, and electronic communication can be used in mental health therapy.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Between 18-65 years of age
- Primarily English speaking (for language analysis)
- Willing to share at least one digital data source this includes Facebook, Google searches, YouTube searches, or screen time by downloading a free application (app) on their smartphone.
- Regular activity viewing and posting on social media sites, defined as once a month posting
- Has a mental or behavioral health provider and/or has a provider from the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists and currently enrolled in mental or behavioral therapy
- Attends therapy at least once a month and intends to remain in therapy for the next three months
- Willing to share dashboard with their behavioral health provider
- Able to provide informed consent
- Owns a smartphone
- If the patient downloads an app, they are willing to download and keep an app on their phone for 3 months
Exclusion Criteria
- Under 18 years of age
- Non-English speaker
- Patient is in severe distress, e.g. respiratory, physical, or emotional distress
- Patient is intoxicated, unconscious, or unable to appropriately respond to questions
- Not currently enrolled in mental therapy
- Not expected to remain in mental therapy for the next three months
- Not a regular social media poster, or does not use Facebook and/or Instagram and/or not willing to share
- Unwilling to share social media summary dashboard with behavioral health provider
- Patient with diagnosed psychosis
- Does not own a smartphone
- Unwilling to download and keep an app on their phone for 3 months
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04011540). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.