N/A
N=87
Mobile Self-Tracking of Mental Health
Schizophrenia · Bipolar Disorder · Schizoaffective Disorder · Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05023252 ↗Enrolled (actual)
87
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Oct 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: Feasibility of Passive Self-tracking of Mental Health — 58 Participants
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- mobile application (Other)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Primary completion
- Jul 2024
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Feasibility of Passive Self-tracking of Mental Health |
58 | — |
| PRIMARY Estimates of Sociability |
73 | — |
| PRIMARY Identify Exacerbations of Psychiatric Symptoms |
85 | — |
| PRIMARY Acceptability of Passive Self-tracking of Mental Health |
58 | — |
| PRIMARY Safety of Passive Self-tracking of Mental Health |
— | — |
| PRIMARY Estimates of Activities |
85 | — |
| PRIMARY Estimates of Sleep |
85 | — |
Summary
Serious mental illnesses require years of monitoring and adjustments in treatment. Stress, substance abuse or reduced medication adherence cause rapid worsening of symptoms, with consequences that include job loss, homelessness, suicide, incarceration, and hospitalization. Treatment visits can be infrequent. Illness exacerbations usually occur with no clinician awareness, leaving little opportunity to make treatment adjustments. Tools are needed that quickly detect illness worsening. At least two thirds of Veterans with serious mental illness use a smartphone. These phones generate data that characterize sociability, activity and sleep. Changes in these are warning signs for relapse. Members of this project developed an app that monitors and transmits these mobile data. This project studies passive mobile sensing that allows Veterans to self-track their activities, sociability and sleep; and studies whether this can be used to track symptoms. The project intends to produce a mobile platform that monitors the clinical status of patients, identifies risk for relapse, and allows early intervention.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Veteran patient at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Healthcare Center with a chart diagnosis of serious mental illness, defined as a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder
- Risk for symptoms based on having had, during the past year, psychiatric hospitalization, psychiatric emergency care, lived at a crisis program, or more than 6 outpatient visits; and,
- Ownership of a smartphone with a data plan
Exclusion Criteria
- Under age 18
- Has a conservator/legally authorized representative
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05023252). 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.