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Context-Aware Mobile Intervention for Social Recovery in Serious Mental Illness (R33)

a study on Schizophenia Disorder Psychotic Disorders Schizoaffective Disorder Mental Disorder

Summary

Eligibility
for people ages 18-65 (full criteria)
Dates
study started
study ends around
Principal Investigator
by Eric Granholm, PhD
Headshot of Eric Granholm
Eric Granholm

Description

Summary

This randomized clinical trial will test a new technology-supported blended intervention, mobile Social Interaction Therapy by Exposure (mSITE), that targets social engagement in consumers with serious mental illness.

Details

This study evaluates a new technology-supported blended intervention, mobile Social Interaction Therapy by Exposure (mSITE), that targets social behavior, and it also validates several new techniques for measuring social behavior. mSITE blends brief in-person psychotherapy with a context-triggered mobile smartphone intervention and remote telephone coaching. The investigators will conduct a randomized clinical trial of mSITE, evaluating whether the intervention leads to clinically significant changes in the frequency of social interactions in comparison to a therapist and device matched condition. The investigators will changes in outcome measures at baseline and Weeks 8, 18, and 30. If found to be effective, a scalable intervention that reduces social isolation in serious mental illness would have significant personal, societal, and economic impact.

Keywords

Schizophenia Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, schizophrenia, serious mental illness, mSITE, randomized clinical trial, Psychotic Disorders, Mental Disorders, Mobile Intervention for Social Recovery in Serious Mental Illness, Supportive Contact

Eligibility

You can join if…

Open to people ages 18-65

  • Voluntary informed consent to participate and capacity to consent; Age 18 to 65;
  • Diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar I disorder or major depression with history of psychosis based on a diagnostic interview and available medical record review;
  • Minimum level of social avoidance defined by a score of ≥ 2 on the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) asociality item;
  • Be willing and able to speak English at ≥ 6th grade reading level (to read intervention workbook).

You CAN'T join if...

  • Prior CBT in the past 2 years;
  • Greater than moderate disorganization on the PANSS (P2- Disorganization item >5);
  • Alcohol or substance dependence in past 3 months based on the diagnostic interview;
  • Level of care required interferes with outpatient therapy (e.g., hospitalized; severe medical illness);
  • Unable to adequately see or manually manipulate a phone;
  • Resident of an integrated housing facility that also provides treatment services.

Lead Scientist at UCSD

  • Eric Granholm, PhD
    Dr. Granholm is Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Research, and Director of the Center for Mental Health Technology in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

Details

Status
not yet accepting patients
Start Date
Completion Date
(estimated)
Sponsor
University of California, San Diego
ID
NCT06865937
Study Type
Interventional
Participants
Expecting 125 study participants
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