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About this trial

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if and how so called "Digital Navigators" (DN) can help general practitioners, outpatient psychiatrists and psychologists as well as their treated patients to use digital mental health apps (DiGAs) and integrate it into their treatment. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* What are the chances and implementation barriers of DN? * What are the acceptance and expectations towards DN? * Do DN affect the psychological health of patients? * Do DN affect the digital health literacy and technical competence of participants?

Employees of medical teams (e.g. medical assistants) receive training to become a DN. Afterwards patients are accompanied and supported by the DN for 12 weeks to select and use a suitable app for their mental disorder.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Main diagnosis according to ICD 10 F00-F69, F80-F99

Capacity to consent is given

Sufficient language skills for an interview in German

Participants have access to modern digital hardware (smartphone)

Disqualifiers

Acute danger to self or others

Patients have received prompt (<= 3 weeks) qualified psychiatric or psychotherapeutic treatment

Severe organic brain diseases with cognitive deficits

Intellectual disability

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Support from Digital Navigators to Treatment Team
  • Support from Digital Navigators to Patients
  • Training for Digital Navigators

Treatment groups

116 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups

Locations

6
Praxis Brandenburg an der Havel14776, Brandenburg an der HavelBrandenburg, Germany
Praxis Eberswalde16225, EberswaldeBrandenburg, Germany
Praxis Fürstenwalde15518, FürstenwaldeBrandenburg, Germany
Psychiatrische Institutsambulanz (PIA) Fürstenwalde15517, FürstenwaldeBrandenburg, Germany

Sponsors and collaborators

Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane

Lead sponsor

Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

Collaborator

Hannover Medical School

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov