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Study aim
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Design and Development of an application for Symptom Monitoring in Patients with Bipolar Disorder to Increase drug compliance and Quality of Life
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Design
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Clinical trial without control group
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Settings and conduct
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first an application design that monitors daily mood, sleep, energy, irritability, and drug use with 6 short questions and advises to visit treatment center if there are significant changes.
The study will be performed on patients with bipolar I disorder who are admitted to the Iran Psychiatric Hospital from December 22.2019 to 4 February 2020. Patients are treated with standard medication at the time of admission.
Patients in the intervention group, after discharge and 3 months use of application, will be visited in the hospital clinic by a psychiatrist for 30 minutes and interviewed for feedback.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, Patient hospitalization at the time of Inclusion in the study, Individual consent and legal guardianship to participate in the study, At least elementary education, Ability to use and work with software, Smartphone access, Ages 18 to 60 years;
not: Serious physical illness, Pregnancy, Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Intervention groups
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before the discharge of the intervention group patients, an application that built by the research team, will be installed on the patients' smartphones. Patients will be educated how to work with the application. Patients will log in to the app on a daily basis after discharge, and answer the questions in the software. A chart of mood and sleep changes in the past few days, will available for them. Information is also entered online into the admin panel, which is available to the research team. Patients work with this app for three months and will be interviewed for feedback after three months.
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Main outcome variables
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Increase drug compliance; Improve patients' quality of life