NCT04458168

Feasibility and Evaluation of a Self-care App to Enhance Purposeful Living

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this pilot study, ovarian cancer survivors will be enrolled and followed for six months to evaluate usage of an eHealth app called "Purposeful".

Detailed description

This study will determine the feasibility and acceptability of Purposeful, the eHealth app. First, feasibility of enrolling ovarian cancer survivors to use Purposeful will be assessed. Secondly, the acceptability of the app among ovarian cancer survivors will be assessed, based on frequency of use and validated acceptability measures. Participants will be asked to complete other validated questionnaires so investigators may explore whether further research on the Purposeful app among ovarian cancer survivors is warranted. This will include correlations between use of the Purposeful app and the life purpose questionnaire score. Lastly, correlation between life purpose and quality of life in ovarian cancer survivors will be explored.

Conditions

• Ovarian Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Use of Purposeful app	Patients will be asked to use the Purposeful app every day, which should take no longer than 5 minutes. The app includes three key components: Explore, Act and Reflect. The Explore section provides thematically organized resources that suggest discrete actions users can try out and potentially incorporate into their lives. The app uses machine learning to customize resources presented to the user. The Act section is where users place actions they'd like to keep track of or build into a habit. Finally, the Reflect section includes daily "reflections" where the patient answers open ended questions regarding their alignment with their best self qualities, their sense of purpose, and more. Depending on whether users choose to allow push notifications, they will be notified daily to complete morning, afternoon, and/or evening reflections. Participants will complete questionnaires at enrollment and at 1, 3, and 6 months after enrollment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-28
• Primary completion: 2022-12-10
• Completion: 2022-12-10
• First posted: 2020-07-07
• Last updated: 2024-11-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States