NCT05823922

Mobile Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Medical and Graduate Students

Feasibility and Efficacy of Mobile Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Medical and Graduate Students

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to assess and compare clinician-delivered cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) supplemented with "MAYA", a mobile cognitive behavioral therapy app program to clinician-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy alone. The experimental group will be asked to use the mobile application at least two times per week for six weeks, for at least 20 minutes on each of the two days in addition to the clinician-delivered CBT. Participants will complete a weekly self-report assessment battery designed to assess anxiety and mood symptoms. The investigators think that clinician-delivered CBT supplemented with "MAYA" will improve more effective at improving symptoms of anxiety and depression than clinician-delivered CBT alone.

Detailed description

Growing evidence suggests a need for anxiety and depression treatments that can be disseminated easily to young adults. Many do not seek out treatment for reasons including lack of availability and high cost. There is a growing need for accessible, affordable, research-supported treatments designed to increase the practice of skills and therefore improve treatment outcomes. Graduate students use mobile devices frequently; thus, mobile app-based interventions may be particularly appealing to individuals in this age range with anxiety or depression who are unable to access more traditional psychotherapy administered in person by a therapist. The study aims to compare the efficacy and feasibility of clinician-delivered cognitive behavior therapy supplemented with the mobile app program to clinician- delivered cognitive behavioral therapy alone. Young adults with anxiety and/or depression will be randomized to clinician-delivered CBT (active control group) or to the clinician CBT + mobile app (intervention group). In the active control group, participants will participate in weekly clinician-delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy. In the intervention group, participants will participate in weekly clinician-delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy and use a mobile application for at least 20 minutes two times per week for six weeks.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorders
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Clinician Delivered CBT	Clinicians teach cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques including emotion monitoring, cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, and exposure to help individuals with anxiety and depression. Participants will attend weekly sessions with their clinician for 6 weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	Supplemental MAYA App	The Maya app teaches cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques including emotion monitoring, cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, and exposure to help individuals with anxiety. Participants will attend weekly sessions with their clinician as well as using the MAYA application for at least 20 minutes twice a week

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-17
• Primary completion: 2024-11-30
• Completion: 2024-11-30
• First posted: 2023-04-21
• Last updated: 2025-02-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States