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Improving Mental Health in Youth and Lowering Risk for Obesity Through a Digital Preventative Product

N/A

Waitlist Available

Led By Nick Allen, PhD

Research Sponsored by Ksana Health

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be between 18 and 65 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 12 weeks

Awards & highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trial tests a mobile app called Vira to help young people with depression and weight issues. Some will also get help from a health coach. The app gives health tips and tracks progress, while the coach provides extra support.

Eligible Conditions

Mental Health Disorders
Obesity

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 12 weeks

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~12 weeks

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 12 weeks for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary study objectives

Acceptability of the mobile app intervention

Change in depressive symptoms

Number of active days in the Vira mobile app intervention and health coaching platform

+1 more

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Group I: Vira Self-CareExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

The Vira app is installed on the participant's phone. The app passively collects data from phone sensors (i.e., measures of physical activity, sleep patterns, mobility, and language patterns reflecting mood states and cognition) that are indicative of risk-relevant behavioral patterns and psychological states. It also so prompts users to answer a daily check in question. Mobile sensing data are processed to provide an automated assessment of the user's functioning. Users will be asked to use Vira for 12 weeks. The Vira app can be used as a standalone product. After an initial 10-day period, during which the app assesses the relationship between the user's patterns of behavior and their day-to-day variations in mental health and wellbeing using passive mobile sensing, the user is able to access a personalized behavior change goal that is support by in app information and functionality.

Group II: Vira + CoachingExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

The Vira app can also be supported by a health coach. The health coach interacts with the user (via an instant messaging platform) and who also schedules just-in-time reminders (i.e., "nudges") to arrive in the user's phone at scheduled times to support their behavior change plan. The Vira Health Coach Platform therefore integrates mobile sensing, self-report assessment, and just-in-time nudges and notifications into the coach's workflow.

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Vira mobile app intervention

2022

N/A

~80

Vira mobile app intervention + coaching

2022

N/A

~80