NCT06725147

Elomia - Digital Mental Health and Well-Being

Digital Mental Health and Well-Being

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 63 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is testing the acceptability and efficacy of an AI enabled mental health chatbot (Elomia) as a resource of college student wellness.

Detailed description

Elomia is a generative AI program that can respond to text users type in with unique responses that are designed to address therapeutic targets like stress, anxiety, procrastination, feeling overwhelmed and so on. Elomia was "trained" by real therapists with expertise in cognitive-behavioral therapy who responded to many different real people typing about their concerns. Thus, Elomia can suggest a number of different evidence based therapeutic strategies and can help the user process negative feelings, think through problems, plan solutions, and trouble shoot things that might get in the way of implementing those strategies. Elomia's arsenal includes: * exercises for calming; * exercises for falling asleep; * grounding techniques; * exercises to reduce anxiety; * breathing exercises; * exercises to improve self-esteem. The algorithm determines the user's need for one or another type of help while communicating with the chatbot and suggests an exercise to ease their emotional state. Elomia is not a substitute for professional care, and will detect when a person needs something more than a chatbot and will suggest connecting with other resources. More information about Elomia can be found via this website: https://elomia.com/ The ultimate goal of this study is to explore whether a mental health chatbot is acceptable and can improve symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, and promote general psychological well-being in college students. The investigators will compare Elomia to a curated collection of digital wellness resources that are typically provided to students at our University.

Conditions

• Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety
• Perceived Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	AI enabled wellness chatbot	Elomia uses generative AI to respond to user input about psychological stress and distress. It was trained on the responses of real therapists with expertise in cognitive-behavioral therapy. It provides an array of wellness interventions including exercises for calming; • exercises for falling asleep; • grounding techniques; • exercises to reduce anxiety; • breathing exercises; • exercises to improve self-esteem.
BEHAVIORAL	Penn Digital Wellness Resources	This active control intervention consists of a variety of digital wellness and stress management resources that are freely available to all Penn students.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-15
• Primary completion: 2025-05-30
• Completion: 2025-05-30
• First posted: 2024-12-10
• Last updated: 2025-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States