NCT00794222

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

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 118 (actual)
• Sponsor: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Mobile Tracking Young People's Experiences (mobiletype)	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2011-01-01
• Completion: 2011-01-01
• First posted: 2008-11-20
• Last updated: 2023-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia