NCT05023252Completed
Mobile Self-Tracking of Mental Health
Passive Mobile Self-Tracking of Mental Health by Veterans With Serious Mental Illness
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Serious mental illnesses require years of monitoring and adjustments in treatment. Stress, substance abuse or reduced medication adherence cause rapid worsening of symptoms, with consequences that include job loss, homelessness, suicide, incarceration, and hospitalization. Treatment visits can be infrequent. Illness exacerbations usually occur with no clinician awareness, leaving little opportunity to make treatment adjustments. Tools are needed that quickly detect illness worsening. At least two thirds of Veterans with serious mental illness use a smartphone. These phones generate data that characterize sociability, activity and sleep. Changes in these are warning signs for relapse. Members of this project developed an app that monitors and transmits these mobile data. This project studies passive mobile sensing that allows Veterans to self-track their activities, sociability and sleep; and studies whether this can be used to track symptoms. The project intends to produce a mobile platform that monitors the clinical status of patients, identifies risk for relapse, and allows early intervention.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 87 (actual)
- First submitted
- 16 Aug 2021
- Start date
- 18 Oct 2021
- Primary completion date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Lead sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Diseases
- Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder
- NCT number
- NCT05023252
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 87
- From 18 Oct 2021 to the primary completion date, 22 Jul 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Age
- Under age 18
Other
- Has a conservator/legally authorized representative
Who the study is looking for
- Veteran patient at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Healthcare Center with a chart diagnosis of serious mental illness, defined as a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder
- Risk for symptoms based on having had, during the past year, psychiatric hospitalization, psychiatric emergency care, lived at a crisis program, or more than 6 outpatient visits; and,
- Ownership of a smartphone with a data plan
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | West Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
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