NCT05554718

Evaluation of a Smartphone Application for Self-help for Social Anxiety

Evaluation of a Smartphone Application for Self-help for Patients With Social Anxiety Disorder: a Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 165 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Goethe University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The present study examines whether a self-help app can reduce symptoms of social anxiety disorder.

Detailed description

The study will test the effectiveness of a newly developed mobile app in treating patients with social anxiety. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the following groups: app use only, therapist-guided app use, and a wait-list control group. Over a 12-week period, the study will examine whether mobile app use leads to significant reductions in symptoms associated with social anxiety, as well as improvements in secondary outcomes such as quality of life, depression, or psychological impairment.

Conditions

• Social Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-help Smartphone App	The app provides a 12-week adaptation of scientifically proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for the treatment of SAD and is intended for use as a mobile intervention. The app includes modules such as learning (e.g., creating a model, learning about the maintaining factors), changing the maintaining factors (e.g., safety behaviors), or behavioral experiments.
BEHAVIORAL	Therapist-guided App Use	In addition to using the app, patients receive a total of 8 video-based therapy sessions over the course of 12 weeks. The sessions include topics such as video feedback and behavioral experiments.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-10-01
• Completion: 2023-10-01
• First posted: 2022-09-26
• Last updated: 2022-09-26

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Germany