NCT07225192

Therapy and Tech Study

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 204 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators want to test if gen AI can support therapy by recruiting patients already in therapy.

Detailed description

Recent advancements in AI have led to chatbots, such as ChatGPT, capable of providing therapeutic responses. Early research evaluating chatbots' ability to provide relationship advice and single-session relationship interventions has showed that both laypeople and relationship therapists rate them high on attributes such as empathy and helpfulness. The investigators want to test if chatbots can be a good adjunct to traditional therapy. The investigators hypothesize that participants who regularly use a chatbot as an adjunct to traditional therapy will have better mental health outcomes. Participants will complete baseline, 4-week (post-intervention) and 4-week post-intervention measures and will be invited to gain their therapists ratings.

Conditions

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
• Major Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Chatbot Therapy	This group will be asked to use an AI chatbot like chatgpt as an adjunct to their regular therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-11-01
• Primary completion: 2026-01-01
• Completion: 2026-01-01
• First posted: 2025-11-06
• Last updated: 2025-11-21