Daily electronic monitoring of subjective and objective measures of illness activity in bipolar disorder using smartphones--the MONARCA II trial protocol: a randomized controlled single-blind parallel-group trial

Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Maj Vinberg, Mads Frost, Ellen M Christensen, Jakob Bardram, Lars V Kessing

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    Abstract

    Patients with bipolar disorder often show decreased adherence with mood stabilizers and frequently interventions on prodromal depressive and manic symptoms are delayed. Recently, the MONARCA I randomized controlled trial investigated the effect of electronic self-monitoring using smartphones on depressive and manic symptoms. The findings suggested that patients using the MONARCA system had more sustained depressive symptoms than patients using a smartphone for normal communicative purposes, but had fewer manic symptoms during the trial. It is likely that the ability of these self-monitored measures to detect prodromal symptoms of depression and mania may be insufficient compared to automatically generated objective data on measures of illness activity such as phone usage, social activity, physical activity, and mobility. The Monsenso system, for smartphones integrating subjective and objective measures of illness activity was developed and will be tested in the present trial.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalB M C Psychiatry
    Volume14
    Issue number1
    Pages (from-to)309
    Number of pages1
    ISSN1471-244X
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Bipolar disorder
    • Randomized controlled trial
    • Smartphone
    • Depressive and manic symptoms
    • Illness activity
    • The MONARCA II trial
    • The Monsenso system
    • Electronic monitoring

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