Virtual Agents-based Digital Interventions to Improve Health — KANOPEE  

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title: Acceptance and Efficacy of a Smartphone-based App Using a Conversational Agent to Monitor Health Status and/or Deliver Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Psycho-social Stress

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

KANOPEE is a free smartphone application providing screening, follow-up tools and autonomous digital interventions to lower psycho-social stress and its repercussions on sleep and behaviors in the general population.

Additionally, KANOPEE permits an adaptation of the intervention to the subject (i.e., an adapted waiting period, frequency, and content), enabling to perform innovative trial conditions.

The objective of this long-term study is to evaluate the efficacy of KANOPEE on users among the French general population exposed to psycho-social stress.

Clinical Trial Description

KANOPEE was designed by sleep specialists and psychiatrists to propose autonomous interventions to improve sleep, physical activity and substance abuse ; aiming at lowering psycho-social stress's repercussions. The app provides weekly interactions with a virtual companion.

At each interaction, users answer standardized questionnaires (e.g., Insomnia Severity Index, Cigarette Dependence Scale) enabling to characterize users' health status (i.e;, the severity of the complaints) and evolution over time, and therefore provide adapted interventions based on the literature (e.g., digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, diaries, sleep hygiene recommendations, motivational interviewing).

The app is freely available to the general population in France, enabling very large sample size, and the possibility to perform non-randomized trials depending on the selected interventions by the users and the subject's group. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Insomnia
• Mental Disorder
• Mental Disorders
• Mental Stress
• Stress, Psychological

• NCT number: NCT05074901
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Bordeaux
• Contact: Pierre Philip, Pr
• Phone: +33557820172
• Email: pierre.philip@u-bordeaux.fr
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 22, 2020
• Completion date: December 31, 2027