Boost My Mood. Pilotstudy of a m-health application for youngsters with depressive symptoms or depressive disorders.

Boost My Mood. Pilotstudy of a m-health application for youngsters with depressive symptoms or depressive disorders. - Boost My Mood.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON45983

Enrollment

Registered

2018-07-25

Start date

2019-01-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-04-15

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Conditions

Depression Mood Disorder

Interventions

The Boost My Mood (BMM) app is an application for smartphones with which youngsters are able to work towards decreasing their depressive symptoms. The BMM app has four themes: better mood, better sl

Eligibility

Age

12 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: -16-21 years old -Depressive symptoms (early intervention), depressive disorder (waiting list) or completed treatment of depressive disorder (relapse prevention); - Signed Informed Consent form - Ability and willingness to download the app on a personal mobile device - Ability and willingness to use the app - Ability and willingness to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: -Severe depressive symptoms (exclusion for the early intervention group), -Suicide risk

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The primary study outcome is depression. Depressive symptoms are assessed with a Dutch translation of the Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Self-Report (IDS-SR; Rush et al., 1986, 1996). This survey has 30 items which measure depressive symptoms in the last seven days.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The Boost My Mood (BMM) app is an application for smartphones with which youngsters are able to work towards decreasing their depressive symptoms. The BMM app has four themes: better mood, better sleep, less rumination, and less stress. For each theme, the app provides tips, psycho-education, and exercises (derived from interventions proven effective) and testimonials (based on interviews with youngsters). Also, the app provides a diary for daily self-monitoring, via which youngsters can monitor their symptoms. In the dairy, the youngsters evaluate their experienced mood, quality of sleep, amount of rumination and stress with a mark. The diary also provides an opportunity to monitor (social) activities that have been undertaken. All diary input is summarized in an overview, via which the youngsters gain insight into whether certain themes of app content contribute to a decrease in their symptoms. The app also sends positive and encouraging notifications and push-messages, provided that the youngsters agreed to receive these messages. The goal of these messages is e.g. to stimulate app use, to stimulate completing exercises that have been started, and to provide feedback. The primary study outcome is depression. Depressive symptoms are assessed with a Dutch translation of the Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Self-Report (IDS-SR; Rush et al., 1986, 1996). This survey has 30 items which measure depressive symptoms in the last seven days. In addition to items tapping into depressive symptoms, the survey will contain questions about sleep, ruminations, anxiety and stress. Sleep will be assessed with a Dutch translation of the Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale (GSES; Broomfield & Espie, 2005). The GSES has 7 items which measure the extent to which youngsters worry about their sleep. Rumination will be assessed with a Dutch translation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ; Meyer et al., 1990; van Rijsoort et al., 1997). The PSWQ is a self-report	—

Measure

Time frame

The Boost My Mood (BMM) app is an application for smartphones with which youngsters are able to work towards decreasing their depressive symptoms. The BMM app has four themes: better mood, better sleep, less rumination, and less stress. For each theme, the app provides tips, psycho-education, and exercises (derived from interventions proven effective) and testimonials (based on interviews with youngsters). Also, the app provides a diary for daily self-monitoring, via which youngsters can monitor their symptoms. In the dairy, the youngsters evaluate their experienced mood, quality of sleep, amount of rumination and stress with a mark. The diary also provides an opportunity to monitor (social) activities that have been undertaken. All diary input is summarized in an overview, via which the youngsters gain insight into whether certain themes of app content contribute to a decrease in their symptoms. The app also sends positive and encouraging notifications and push-messages, provided that the youngsters agreed to receive these messages. The goal of these messages is e.g. to stimulate app use, to stimulate completing exercises that have been started, and to provide feedback. The primary study outcome is depression. Depressive symptoms are assessed with a Dutch translation of the Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Self-Report (IDS-SR; Rush et al., 1986, 1996). This survey has 30 items which measure depressive symptoms in the last seven days. In addition to items tapping into depressive symptoms, the survey will contain questions about sleep, ruminations, anxiety and stress. Sleep will be assessed with a Dutch translation of the Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale (GSES; Broomfield & Espie, 2005). The GSES has 7 items which measure the extent to which youngsters worry about their sleep. Rumination will be assessed with a Dutch translation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ; Meyer et al., 1990; van Rijsoort et al., 1997). The PSWQ is a self-report

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Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)