A Mobile Phone Self-Monitoring Tool to Increase Emotional Self-Awareness and Reduce Depression in Young People

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The mobiletype program is a mental health assessment and monitoring tool that runs on mobile phones. The program assesses the general mental health of young people in real-time and transmits this data to a website to be reviewed by their general practitioner (GP) in consultation with their patient. The website consists of individualised feedback reports for each participant, and graphical displays of the monitoring data. The primary aims of the current project are to examine: (1) whether the process of self-monitoring via the mobiletype program increases young people's awareness of their mood and reduces depressive symptoms and (2) whether emotional self-awareness mediates the relationship between self-monitoring and depressive symptoms.

Official Title
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A Randomised Controlled Trial Investigating a Mobile Phone Self-monitoring Tool (Mobiletype) to Increase Emotional Self-awareness and Reduce Depressive Symptoms in Young People.

Conditions
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Depression

Intervention / Treatment
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* Device: Mobile Tracking Young People's Experiences (mobiletype)


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Aged 14 - 24 years of age Proficient English Patients must be deemed to have an emotional/mental health concern by their GP or be screened to have at least a mild mental health problem (a score of 16 or above) on the K10 Symptom Scale Exclusion Criteria: Severe psychiatric or medical condition that prevents the person from complying with either the requirements of informed consent or the study protocol. Young people referred to a mental health specialist by their GP will be excluded only if they obtain a specialist appointment during the mobiletype study period (2 - 4 weeks).

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 14 Years
Maximum Age: 24 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Mood monitoring<br>The mobiletype monitoring intervention group will monitor their current activities, current mood, responses to negative mood, any recent stressors and coping strategies. Other activities monitored include eating patterns, exercise patterns, quantity and quality of sleep and alcohol and cannabis use. | Device: Mobile Tracking Young People's Experiences (mobiletype)<br>* A mobile phone self-monitoring program, based on momentary sampling techniques, that prompts young people to complete it four times a day. The program asks several questions about daily activities, mood, stress, eating and exercise.<br>|
| No Intervention: Comparison monitoring program<br>The mobiletype monitoring comparison group will monitor their current activities, eating patterns, exercise patterns, quantity and quality of sleep and alcohol and cannabis use. This program excludes questions about mood, stress and coping strategies. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Depressive symptoms |  | Pre-, post-monitoring, 6-week follow up & 6 month follow-up | 
| Emotional Self Awareness |  | Pre-, post-, 6-weeks post- and 6-months post-test | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Detection of mental health problems |  | Pre-, post-monitoring, 6 week and 6 month follow up | 
| Pathways to care |  | Pre-, post-monitoring, 6 week and 6 month follow up | 
| Patient's satisfaction with their GP |  | Pre-, post-monitoring, 6 week and 6 month follow up | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Cellular phones, mental health, Early intervention, prevention, momentary sampling, Adolescent