Voice Activated Personal Assistant for Depression Among Older Adults

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Participants will use Amazon Alexa to test a new voice-assisted program for mental health management. The older adult and their support person will use this program to help with goal setting, reminders, and various other services. Participants will be asked to complete surveys and assessments about their experiences during the 16-week study period. Participants will be randomized into two groups: those who receive a guide to help them with utilization of the program to its fullest potential and those who do not receive that guide.

Clinical Trial Description

Older adults have often been on the fringe of benefiting from technology. However, voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants (VIPAs; e.g. Google Home, Amazon Echo), with their natural interaction style and ease of use, are a simple interface technology that may be useful to older adults with depression and their caregivers in the home setting. Caregivers would be able to schedule and follow the interactions between the older adult and the VIPA. The VIPAs would potentially be able to provide functional, cognitive, and social stimulation as well as improve anti-depressant medication adherence through reminders to older adults. The aim is to evaluate a VIPA that was designed to provide the caregiver with the skills and tools to deliver stimulation and medication reminders to homebound older adults with depression. The program model is based on a simplified behavioral activation program designed for administration by lay persons. Through user centered design (UCD), the investigators have adapted the model for remote delivery by a caregiver with the aid of VIPAs that provide psychoeducation, as well as features that support social, cognitive, and functional stimulation and reminders. The ability to deliver a caregiver-coordinated depression management program remotely, through an easy-to-use voice activated end-user interface, has the potential to deliver cost-effective care, easily implementable, to millions of homebound older adults, who currently are unable to access effective treatment. The study duration will be 12 weeks. During those 12 weeks, participants will be able to use Amazon Echo Show 8 and the study's VIPA program to set goals, reminders, and the like to help with their mood. Participants will also be asked to completed associated assessments. Caregivers will be able to interact with a dashboard to see how their older adult participant is faring and also be asked to complete assessments. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT06114485
Study type	Interventional
Source	Northwestern University
Contact	Olga Barnas
Phone	312-503-4610
Email	olga.barnas@northwestern.edu
Status	Recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	December 4, 2023
Completion date	March 31, 2025

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