NCT05991713

Geolocation Positional System (GPS) Experience

Individual Differences in Emotional and Behavioral Patterns and Their Relationship to Cognition

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Miami · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to use smartphone technology to capture individual location emotional and cognitive data, to examine how real-world behaviors thoughts, emotions, and brain activity are related to one another.

Detailed description

The observational portion of this study was initially approved in 2015, this is a subset of the initially approved study and it is a clinical trial of 100 participants.

Conditions

• Emotions
• Anhedonia
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Modifying Exploration	Participants in this group will use a mobile phone sensor data application that uses an accelerometer, Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) and/or GPS designed for smartphone devices. This technology allows the phones to capture information automatically and passively on the participant's activity. The application will be collecting participants' data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Participants will be asked to make alterations to their exploration levels approximately 20 days of their participation in the study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-02
• Primary completion: 2028-06-15
• Completion: 2028-06-15
• First posted: 2023-08-15
• Last updated: 2025-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States