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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05028075
Health Care Workers and Mental Health
December 6, 2023 updated by: University of Pennsylvania
Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Enhanced Digital Mental Health Care Delivery System
The purpose of this proposal is to deploy digital health interventions to bring timely, easily accessible resources and care to address the mental health and well-being needs of HCWs with direct patient care that are experiencing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic, financial, and social sequelae at present and presumably for years to come.
This proposal will evaluate the effectiveness of an enhanced digital mental health care delivery system (Cobalt), any differential effect by race and gender and, through qualitative interviews, how those interventions are perceived.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The purpose of this proposal is to deploy digital health interventions to bring timely, easily accessible resources and care to address the mental health and well-being needs of HCWs with direct patient care that are experiencing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic, financial, and social sequelae at present and presumably for years to come.
This proposal will evaluate the effectiveness of an enhanced digital mental health care delivery system (Cobalt), any differential effect by race and gender and, through qualitative interviews, how those interventions are perceived.
No Intervention: Usual Care, Participants will complete baseline surveys at enrollment and then complete subsequent surveys (depression, anxiety, well-being, satisfaction with access to care, work productivity, hours of direct patient care, percent of time providing care for patients with COVID-19) at enrollment; 0 months, 6 months, and 9 months.
Behavioral: Cobalt +: Participants will complete baseline surveys at enrollment and then complete subsequent surveys (depression, anxiety, well-being, satisfaction with access to care, work productivity) at enrollment; 0 months and then again at 6 months.
The primary endpoint is assessed at 6 months.
A secondary endpoint of persistence of effect is measured 3 months later-9 months post initiation.
The intervention group receives usual Cobalt plus: 1) monthly automated text messaging reminders and links to Cobalt resources 2) intermittent mental health assessments which triage individuals to an appointment based on their results.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
1275
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
- University of Pennsylvania
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged 18 years or older
- Regular, daily access to an smartphone
- Able to communicate fluently in English
- Work at least 4 hours per week in either a hospital or outpatient based setting. This includes health care workers like physicians, nurses, certified nursing assistants, lab technicians, radiology technicians, physical therapist, occupational therapist, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, patient registration staff, receptionists/patient intake coordinators, environmental and food service personnel approximately 4 hours/week. This averages 192 hours/ 48 weeks in a year) in the study time frame.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not aged 18 years or older
- Does not have regular, daily access to a smartphone
- Unable to communicate fluently in English
- Does not work at least 4 hours per week in either a hospital or outpatient based setting.
- Not willing to sign the informed consent document
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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No Intervention: Usual Care
Participants will complete baseline surveys at enrollment and then complete subsequent surveys (depression, anxiety, well-being, satisfaction with access to care, work productivity, hours of direct patient care, percent of time providing care for patients with COVID-19) at enrollment; 0 months, 6 months, and 9 months.
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Experimental: Intervention
Participants will complete baseline surveys at enrollment and then complete subsequent surveys (depression, anxiety, well-being, satisfaction with access to care, work productivity) at enrollment; 0 months and then again at 6 months and 9 months.
The intervention group receives usual Cobalt plus: 1) monthly automated text messaging reminders and links to Cobalt resources 2) intermittent mental health assessments which triage individuals to an appointment based on their results.
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Participants will complete baseline surveys at enrollment and then complete subsequent surveys (depression, anxiety, well-being, satisfaction with access to care, work productivity) at enrollment; 0 months and then again at 6 months.
The primary endpoint is assessed at 6 months.
A secondary endpoint of persistence of effect is measured 3 months later-9 months post initiation.
The intervention group receives usual Cobalt plus: 1) monthly automated text messaging reminders and links to Cobalt resources 2) intermittent mental health assessments which triage individuals to an appointment based on their results.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Depressive symptoms
Time Frame: 9 months
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Patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) (Kroenke, Spitzer, & Williams, 2001) is a multipurpose instrument for screening, diagnosing, monitoring and measuring the severity of depression.
The PHQ-9 incorporates DSM-IV depression diagnostic criteria with other leading major depressive symptoms into a brief self-report tool.
PHQ-9 is brief and useful in clinical practice.
The PHQ-9 is completed by the patient in minutes and is rapidly scored by the clinician.
The PHQ-9 is a freely available mood-rating questionnaire consisting of nine questions mirroring DSM-IV depression diagnostic criteria.
The PHQ-9 has shown diagnostic validity in a study of 3,000 adult patients.
Each item is rated on a scale of 0 to 3, giving a maximum score of 24.
Cut-off scores are used to label depression severity as: 0 to 4, minimal depression; 5 to 9, mild depression; 10 to 14, moderate depression; 15 to 19, moderately severe depression; 20 to 24, severe depression.
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9 months
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Anxiety
Time Frame: 9 months
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GAD-7 is a 7-item anxiety scale.
It has good reliability, as well as criterion, construct, factorial, and procedural validity.
Each item is rated according to the frequency of the described problem.
The responses are scored as follows: 0 = not at all, 1 = several days, 2 = more than half the days, 3 = nearly every day with a maximum score of 21 Scores are interpreted as 5 to 9, mild anxiety; 10 to 14, moderate anxiety; and 15 and above, severe anxiety.
The GAD-7 showed good reliability and criterion, construct, factorial, and procedural validity in a study carried out in 15 primary care clinics.
The GAD-7 is a valid and efficient tool for screening for GAD and assessing its severity in clinical practice and research.
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9 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Well-being
Time Frame: 9 months
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The Well-being index (WBI) is a nine-question survey validated for use in Health Care Worker populations and considered important to health systems in managing the well-being of their workforce.
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9 months
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Work productivity
Time Frame: 9 months
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To evaluate work productivity, we will use Lam Employment Absence and Productivity Scale, or LEAPS.
It is a 10-item, self-rated scale that takes only 3 to 5 minutes for the patient to complete.
It is simple and easy to use.
The items were chosen based on the symptoms that have the most impact on work productivity and the most common productivity problems experienced by patients with depression.
The LEAPS was recently validated in a sample of 234 consecutive working patients meeting DSM-IV criteria for MDD attending a mood disorders outpatient clinic (Lam et al, 2009).
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9 months
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Satisfaction with care
Time Frame: 9 months
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Satisfaction Index- Mental Health (SIMH)(Nabati, Shea, McBride, Gavin, & Bauer, 1998).
The SIMH is a 12-item, self-report instrument developed to measure patient satisfaction with mental health care (Nabati, et al., 1998).
The SIMH has high internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.90), test- retest reliability (r = 0.79, p = 0.05), and sensitivity to change (Nabati, et al., 1998).
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9 months
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Psychological well-being
Time Frame: 9 months
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The 5-item World Health Organization Well- Being Index (WHO-5) is among the most widely used questionnaires assessing subjective psychological well-being.
Scoring principle: The raw score ranging from 0 to 25 is multiplied by 4 to give the final score from 0 representing the worst imaginable well-being to 100 representing the best imaginable well-being (Topp et al. 2015)
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9 months
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Perceived System usability:
Time Frame: 6 months
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System Usability Scale (SUS) provides a "quick and dirty", reliable tool for measuring the usability.
It consists of a 10-item questionnaire with five response options for respondents; from Strongly agree to Strongly disagree.
Originally created by John Brooke in 1986, it allows you to evaluate a wide variety of products and services, including hardware, software, mobile devices, websites and applications.
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6 months
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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WHODAS
Time Frame: 9 months
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WHODAS is a 12-item questionnaire asks about difficulties due to health conditions.
Health conditions include diseases or illnesses, other health problems that may be short or long lasting, injuries, mental or emotional problems, and problems with alcohol or drugs.
Think back over the past 30 days and answer these questions, thinking about how much difficulty you had doing the following activities.
For each question, please circle only one response.
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9 months
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DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure
Time Frame: 9 months
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DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure
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9 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
November 29, 2021
Primary Completion (Actual)
March 10, 2023
Study Completion (Actual)
June 1, 2023
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
August 25, 2021
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
August 25, 2021
First Posted (Actual)
August 31, 2021
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimated)
December 7, 2023
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
December 6, 2023
Last Verified
December 1, 2023
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 848844
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
UNDECIDED
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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