Social Media Use in Adolescents Admitted to a Psychiatric Unit

Status

Withdrawn

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03836846

Enrollment

Registered

2019-02-11

Start date

2019-10-01

Completion date

2021-10-31

Last updated

2022-01-18

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Conditions

Adolescent Behavior, Depression, Social Media

Brief summary

We will investigate the association between social media use and depression in adolescents admitted to a psychiatric unit and continue to follow their progress after discharge in outpatient clinic services. We expect improvement in their depressive symptoms by modifying social media use and adding a mental health app to further encourage the positive effects of social media.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALCBT Mobile App

TAU and the additional treatment of a Mental Health App (What's Up?). This app will be used to guide adolescents through cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance commitment therapy techniques, as well as to assist in developing coping mechanisms to prevent readmission.

BEHAVIORALTreatment as usual

TAU as per standard of care

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

13 Years to 17 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Participants admitted to inpatient psychiatric unit * Kaiser insured participants between 13-17 years of age with parental consent * positive for social media use * English speaking

Exclusion criteria

* pregnant * non English speaking

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Comparing depression scale,PHQ9-A (Patient Health Questionnaire, Adolescent Version), with social media use	1 month	Compare presence and severity of depressive symptoms in treatment as usual (TAU) group with TAU and the mobile app intervention group. The presence and severity of depression will be determined using the PHQ9-A (Patient Health Questionnaire, adolescent version), a 9-question depression scale that is based on the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria of depression and modified for teens to further inquire about other aspects of depression such as dysthymia, suicide risk, and other mental illnesses. The PHQ-9A scores each of the DSM-IV criteria as 0 (not at all) to 3 (nearly every day). Total depression severity score ranges of 0-4 none, 5-9 mild, 10-14 moderate, 15-19 moderately severe, 20-27 severe.

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026