NCT01304862

Electronic Self-management Resource Training for Mental Health

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Case Western Reserve University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether mental health treatment disengagement may be mitigated by reducing barriers to self-management and enhancing self-management skills.

Detailed description

Each year, more than four million young adults (age 18-25 years old) in the U.S. receive psychotropic medication or psychotherapy as treatment for a mental illness. One in every four of these young adults will disengage from mental health treatment before significant symptom remission is achieved. Mental health treatment disengagement may be mitigated by reducing barriers to self-management and enhancing self-management skills. Electronic self-management resource training for mental health (eSMART-MH) is an innovative use of avatars-virtual persons who tailor responses to users-to improve mental health treatment disengagement.

Conditions

• Depression
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	eSMART-MH intervention	Involves simulated interactions between participants and the virtual health care providers (avatars).
BEHAVIORAL	Educational videos about healthy living	20 minute screen-based educational videos on topics about healthy living--nutrition, physical activity, and sleep hygiene.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2011-02-28
• Last updated: 2022-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States