DepressionNCT04554706
Evaluating a Mobile Phone Intervention
A study testing Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive Rumination in people with Depression and Rumination - Thoughts, run by University of Southern California at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
This clinical trial intends to study the efficacy of a mobile phone delivered intervention in reducing depression-related rumination. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Depression, Rumination - Thoughts
- What is being tested?
- Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive Rumination
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 150 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 6 May 2021to 6 Nov 2021
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Participants who have a current self-reported clinical diagnosis of being depressed ( mild to moderate depression and major depressive disorder)
- Participants should be 18 or older.
- Participants should have a working smartphone and daily access to the internet.
Who cannot join
- -Participants who do not have regular access to the internet and a smart phones will be excluded.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, 90007
About this study
Official title: Using Mobile Phones to Reduce Negative Rumination
This clinical trial intends to study the efficacy of a mobile phone delivered intervention in reducing depression-related rumination.
Read the detailed description
Here we propose to test a novel intervention to help individuals manage their depressive rumination. The intervention is based on a just-in-time, adaptive-intervention (JITAI) design. A JITAI is "an intervention designed to address the dynamically changing needs of individuals via the provision of the type/amount of support needed, at the right time, and only when needed ." This study is also to address one major concern regarding designing JITAI interventions: the burden on participants in having to be engaged with the intervention through diaries, self-reports, and other forms of assessment procedures daily. To reduce this burden, we first pilot test an interactive narrative form. An interactive narrative is an essential form of storytelling that involves certain interactive features such that audiences or readers of the story can have the feeling that they are actively engaging in certain forms of interactions with the story characters.
To test the efficacy of such an intervention, there will be a one-month three-arm clinical control trial to reduce depressive rumination. There are three conditions: a JITAI interactive narrative condition, a non-narrative JTIAI condition, and a wait-list control condition. This study could contribute to our knowledge in designing more effective interventions in curbing depression using mobile technology. It can also advance our theoretical knowledge of the role of interactive narratives in reducing user burden in mobile health.
- Conditions
- Depression, Rumination - Thoughts
- Being tested
- Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive Rumination
- Medical subject headings
- Depression
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive RuminationBehavioural
This is a one-month three-arm clinical control trial to reduce the rumination and interpersonal impairment link.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| a JITAI interactive narrative condition (Narrative JITAI) | Experimental | This arm is an exploratory condition, which tested whether story-based JITAI would be an effective way to deal with rumination. Receives: Behavioral: Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive Rumination |
| a JITIAI non-interactive condition | Experimental | This arm uses the regular JITAI ( mobile phone delivered) intervention to provide treatment for ruminative thoughts. Receives: Behavioral: Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive Rumination |
| a wait-list control condition | No intervention | Participants in this arm will be put on a waitlist without receiving active treatment upon the end of the study. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in Rumination focus ( immediately after intervention)
Momentary Ruminative Self-Focus Inventory-Abbreviated (MRSI-A). The MRSI is a 6-item questionnaire measuring state-level fluctuations in ruminative self-focus. Each item ranges from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 7 (Strongly agree).
Measured: Change in Rumination focus at the baseline and immediate-post intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
Change in Rumination focus ( two weeks after intervention)
Momentary Ruminative Self-Focus Inventory-Abbreviated (MRSI-A). The MRSI is a 6-item questionnaire measuring state-level fluctuations in ruminative self-focus. Each item ranges from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 7 (Strongly agree).
Measured: Change in Rumination focus at the baseline and two weeks after the intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
Change in Heart-rate( baseline and immediately after intervention)
Participants self-report their heart-rate by using a moblie phone app by the name of Instant Heart rate (see example outcome report: https://www.azumio.com/heartrate/report.jsp?token=28928192047-28935807244-3eb659-334dc9f600fc7084f8cda95b135396673b2bd118-1588095873083#)
Measured: Change in heart rates at the baseline and immediate-post intervention .(measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up)
Change in Heart-rate (baseline and two weeks after intervention.)
Participants self-report their heart-rate by using a moblie phone app by the name of Instant Heart rate (see example outcome report: https://www.azumio.com/heartrate/report.jsp?token=28928192047-28935807244-3eb659-334dc9f600fc7084f8cda95b135396673b2bd118-1588095873083#)
Measured: Change in heart rates at the baseline and two weeks after the intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
Change in Depressive Symptoms ( baseline and immediately after intervention)
a 3-item scale in which participants rated their level of depressed mood, anhedonia, and irritability on 7-point Likert scales ranging from 1 (Not at all) to 7 (Very much) at the time of the alert. The SDS is in part modeled after a scale used in a previous EMA study of rumination and depression (Moberly \& Watkins, 2008a). The scale was presented as a slider bar on participants' smartphones."
Measured: Change in depressive symptoms at the baseline and immediate-post intervention .(measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up)
Change in Depressive Symptoms (baseline and two weeks after intervention.)
a 3-item scale in which participants rated their level of depressed mood, anhedonia, and irritability on 7-point Likert scales ranging from 1 (Not at all) to 7 (Very much) at the time of the alert. The SDS is in part modeled after a scale used in a previous EMA study of rumination and depression (Moberly \& Watkins, 2008a). The scale was presented as a slider bar on participants' smartphones."
Measured: Change in depressive symptoms at the baseline and two weeks after the intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted18 Sep 2020
- Study start6 May 2021
- Primary completion6 Nov 2021
- Study completion6 Nov 2021
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (4)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for DepressionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Factorial
- Model description
- There are three conditions: a JITAI interactive narrative condition, a JITAI non-narrative condition, and a wait-list control condition.
- Masking
- Triple blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 150 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Southern California
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Lynn Miller, University of Southern California
- Investigators
- Lynn Miller, Ph.D, Principal investigator, UscCalifornia
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04554706
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- UscCalifornia
- Status last verified
- Nov 2021
- First submitted
- 26 Jun 2020
- Last updated
- 10 Nov 2021
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No: Because this study is a pilot study, we decided not to share the data.
Publications
Nahum-Shani I, Hekler EB, Spruijt-Metz D. Building health behavior models to guide the development of just-in-time adaptive interventions: A pragmatic framework. Health Psychol. 2015 Dec;34S(0):1209-19. doi: 10.1037/hea0000306.
PubMed 26651462Sharmin M, Raij A, Epstien D, Nahum-Shani I, Beck JG, Vhaduri S, Preston K, Kumar S. Visualization of Time-Series Sensor Data to Inform the Design of Just-In-Time Adaptive Stress Interventions. Proc ACM Int Conf Ubiquitous Comput. 2015 Sep;2015:505-516. doi: 10.1145/2750858.2807537.
PubMed 26539566Walter N, Murphy ST, Frank LB, Baezconde-Garbanati L. Each Medium Tells a Different Story: The Effect of Message Channel on Narrative Persuasion. Commun Res Rep. 2017;34(2):161-170. doi: 10.1080/08824096.2017.1286471. Epub 2017 Mar 2.
PubMed 30739986Wang L, Miller L. Assessment and Disruption of Ruminative Episodes to Enhance Mobile Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Clinical Depression: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Form Res. 2023 Jan 5;7:e37270. doi: 10.2196/37270.
PubMed 36602841
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 10 Nov 2021. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Using Mobile Phones to Reduce Negative Rumination
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04554706
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- UscCalifornia
- Conditions
- Depression, Rumination - Thoughts
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 150 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 6 May 2021 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 6 Nov 2021 (actual)
- Study completion
- 6 Nov 2021 (actual)
- First posted
- 18 Sep 2020 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This clinical trial intends to study the efficacy of a mobile phone delivered intervention in reducing depression-related rumination.
Detailed description
Here we propose to test a novel intervention to help individuals manage their depressive rumination. The intervention is based on a just-in-time, adaptive-intervention (JITAI) design. A JITAI is "an intervention designed to address the dynamically changing needs of individuals via the provision of the type/amount of support needed, at the right time, and only when needed ." This study is also to address one major concern regarding designing JITAI interventions: the burden on participants in having to be engaged with the intervention through diaries, self-reports, and other forms of assessment procedures daily. To reduce this burden, we first pilot test an interactive narrative form. An interactive narrative is an essential form of storytelling that involves certain interactive features such that audiences or readers of the story can have the feeling that they are actively engaging in certain forms of interactions with the story characters.
To test the efficacy of such an intervention, there will be a one-month three-arm clinical control trial to reduce depressive rumination. There are three conditions: a JITAI interactive narrative condition, a non-narrative JTIAI condition, and a wait-list control condition. This study could contribute to our knowledge in designing more effective interventions in curbing depression using mobile technology. It can also advance our theoretical knowledge of the role of interactive narratives in reducing user burden in mobile health.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Factorial
- Masking
- Triple blind (participant, investigator, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 3
- Model description
- There are three conditions: a JITAI interactive narrative condition, a JITAI non-narrative condition, and a wait-list control condition.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| a JITAI interactive narrative condition (Narrative JITAI) | Experimental | Behavioral: Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive RuminationThis arm is an exploratory condition, which tested whether story-based JITAI would be an effective way to deal with rumination. |
| a JITIAI non-interactive condition | Experimental | Behavioral: Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive RuminationThis arm uses the regular JITAI ( mobile phone delivered) intervention to provide treatment for ruminative thoughts. |
| a wait-list control condition | No intervention | –Participants in this arm will be put on a waitlist without receiving active treatment upon the end of the study. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Participants who have a current self-reported clinical diagnosis of being depressed ( mild to moderate depression and major depressive disorder)
- Participants should be 18 or older.
- Participants should have a working smartphone and daily access to the internet.
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- -Participants who do not have regular access to the internet and a smart phones will be excluded.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive RuminationThis is a one-month three-arm clinical control trial to reduce the rumination and interpersonal impairment link. | Behavioural | a JITAI interactive narrative condition (Narrative JITAI), a JITIAI non-interactive condition |
Primary outcome
Change in Rumination focus ( immediately after intervention)
Time frame: Change in Rumination focus at the baseline and immediate-post intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
Momentary Ruminative Self-Focus Inventory-Abbreviated (MRSI-A). The MRSI is a 6-item questionnaire measuring state-level fluctuations in ruminative self-focus. Each item ranges from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 7 (Strongly agree).
Change in Rumination focus ( two weeks after intervention)
Time frame: Change in Rumination focus at the baseline and two weeks after the intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
Momentary Ruminative Self-Focus Inventory-Abbreviated (MRSI-A). The MRSI is a 6-item questionnaire measuring state-level fluctuations in ruminative self-focus. Each item ranges from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 7 (Strongly agree).
Change in Heart-rate( baseline and immediately after intervention)
Time frame: Change in heart rates at the baseline and immediate-post intervention .(measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up)
Participants self-report their heart-rate by using a moblie phone app by the name of Instant Heart rate (see example outcome report: https://www.azumio.com/heartrate/report.jsp?token=28928192047-28935807244-3eb659-334dc9f600fc7084f8cda95b135396673b2bd118-1588095873083#)
Change in Heart-rate (baseline and two weeks after intervention.)
Time frame: Change in heart rates at the baseline and two weeks after the intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
Participants self-report their heart-rate by using a moblie phone app by the name of Instant Heart rate (see example outcome report: https://www.azumio.com/heartrate/report.jsp?token=28928192047-28935807244-3eb659-334dc9f600fc7084f8cda95b135396673b2bd118-1588095873083#)
Change in Depressive Symptoms ( baseline and immediately after intervention)
Time frame: Change in depressive symptoms at the baseline and immediate-post intervention .(measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up)
a 3-item scale in which participants rated their level of depressed mood, anhedonia, and irritability on 7-point Likert scales ranging from 1 (Not at all) to 7 (Very much) at the time of the alert. The SDS is in part modeled after a scale used in a previous EMA study of rumination and depression (Moberly \& Watkins, 2008a). The scale was presented as a slider bar on participants' smartphones."
Change in Depressive Symptoms (baseline and two weeks after intervention.)
Time frame: Change in depressive symptoms at the baseline and two weeks after the intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).
a 3-item scale in which participants rated their level of depressed mood, anhedonia, and irritability on 7-point Likert scales ranging from 1 (Not at all) to 7 (Very much) at the time of the alert. The SDS is in part modeled after a scale used in a previous EMA study of rumination and depression (Moberly \& Watkins, 2008a). The scale was presented as a slider bar on participants' smartphones."
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 10 Nov 2021.
- Background: PubMed 26651462Nahum-Shani I, Hekler EB, Spruijt-Metz D. Building health behavior models to guide the development of just-in-time adaptive interventions: A pragmatic framework. Health Psychol. 2015 Dec;34S(0):1209-19. doi: 10.1037/hea0000306.
- Background: PubMed 26539566Sharmin M, Raij A, Epstien D, Nahum-Shani I, Beck JG, Vhaduri S, Preston K, Kumar S. Visualization of Time-Series Sensor Data to Inform the Design of Just-In-Time Adaptive Stress Interventions. Proc ACM Int Conf Ubiquitous Comput. 2015 Sep;2015:505-516. doi: 10.1145/2750858.2807537.
- Background: PubMed 30739986Walter N, Murphy ST, Frank LB, Baezconde-Garbanati L. Each Medium Tells a Different Story: The Effect of Message Channel on Narrative Persuasion. Commun Res Rep. 2017;34(2):161-170. doi: 10.1080/08824096.2017.1286471. Epub 2017 Mar 2.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 36602841Wang L, Miller L. Assessment and Disruption of Ruminative Episodes to Enhance Mobile Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Clinical Depression: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Form Res. 2023 Jan 5;7:e37270. doi: 10.2196/37270.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No. Because this study is a pilot study, we decided not to share the data.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Lynn Miller, Ph.D principal investigator
UscCalifornia
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Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Mobile-phone delivered Treatment for Excessive Rumination in people with Depression and Rumination - Thoughts, run by University of Southern California at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Nov 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in Rumination focus ( immediately after intervention) (time frame: Change in Rumination focus at the baseline and immediate-post intervention (measured baseline, immediate-post intervention, and two-week follow-up).). The study lists 6 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04554706, which also lists 4 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 10 Nov 2021.