Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03712267
Electronic Media and Its Application in Psychotherapy
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 110 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 14 Years – 85 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This randomized control trial aims to establish whether viewing and discussing patients' electronic communication (texts, emails, Facebook direct messaging, etc) impacts clinical care and decision making across the lifespan.
Detailed description
This study explores the usefulness and effectiveness of including electronic communication as part of standard clinical care. Participants will provide information and content from their electronic media to research assistants during in person interviews if they are in the intervention group. Research assistants will then give clinicians the information collected, so the clinicians can incorporate the data into the session as they see fit. Therapists will retain full clinical discretion of how they continue to conduct their therapy sessions. The investigators will compare the impact of receiving this electronic enhancement intervention versus only receiving treatment as usual care on mental health related functioning and therapeutic alliance.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Electronic Media Enhanced | Research assistants will provide participants' therapists with information from participants' electronic messaging prior to typically scheduled clinical appointments. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Treatment as Usual | Research assistants will not review or provide participants' therapists with information from participants' electronic media and will compare with the Electronic Media Enhanced cohort to see if there was a difference in therapy outcomes. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-12-13
- Primary completion
- 2023-08-31
- Completion
- 2023-08-31
- First posted
- 2018-10-19
- Last updated
- 2025-11-05
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03712267. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.