Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Electronic Daily Self-monitoring of Subjective and Objective Symptoms in Bipolar Disorder - The MONARCA Project (MONitoring, treAtment and pRediCtion of bipolAr Disorder Episodes)
Brief Summary: Bipolar disorder is associated with a high risk of relapse and hospitalisation and many patients do not recover to previous psychosocial function. Major reasons for poor outcome are delayed intervention for prodromal depressive and manic episodes as well as decreased adherence with treatment. Recently, electronic self monitoring of affective symptoms using cell phones to prompt patients to respond to weekly text messages has been suggested as an easy and cheap way to identify early signs of affective episodes. Nevertheless, so far the electronic devises has been rather simple not including a bi-directional feed back loop between patients and providers and without electronic data on "objective" measures of the affective psychopathology. As part of an ongoing EU research program a software program for online electronic self-monitoring using a cell phone is being developed including an interactive feed back loop between patients, relatives and clinicians. Electronic self-monitoring includes subjective items such as mood, irritability, sleep duration, activity, alcohol consumption, medication intake and objective items of speech duration (on the cell phone), social activity (numbers of calls and SMS'es at the cell phone) and physical activity (acceleration of the cell phone). The present PhD. study will in a randomized controlled single blind trial including 60 patients with bipolar disorder allocated to using the active cell phone program (intervention group) or to using a cell phone to usual communication (control group) during a 6 months study period.

If the cell phone self-monitoring system is proved effective in preventing mood symptoms and improving psychosocial functioning,quality of life etc. in the present study there might be basis for extending the use of the system to treatment of patients with bipolar disorder in clinical practice in general.


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A: Arm Label: MONARCA; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: MONARCA | Arm Label: NON-MONARCA; Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: NON-MONARCA | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: MONARCA; Assigned to Arm(s): MONARCA | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: NON-MONARCA; Assigned to Arm(s): NON-MONARCA
B: Arm Label: Paper-based screening; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: E-screening; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: E-screening | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: E-screening; Assigned to Arm(s): E-screening
C: Arm Label: Paper food diary; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Paper food diary | Arm Label: Online food diary; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Online food diary | Arm Label: "My Meal Mate" (smartphone application); Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: "My Meal Mate" (smartphone application) | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: "My Meal Mate" (smartphone application); Assigned to Arm(s): "My Meal Mate" (smartphone application) | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Paper food diary; Assigned to Arm(s): Paper food diary | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Online food diary; Assigned to Arm(s): Online food diary
D: Arm Label: Mood monitoring; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: Mobile Tracking Young People's Experiences (mobiletype) | Arm Label: Comparison monitoring program; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Mobile Tracking Young People's Experiences (mobiletype); Assigned to Arm(s): Mood monitoring

Answer: A