KIOS: A smartphone app for self-monitoring for patients with bipolar disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examined the use of a self-monitoring/self-management smartphone application (app) for patients with bipolar disorder. The app was specifically designed with patient-centered computational software system based on concepts from nonlinear systems (chaos) theory.

Methods

This was a randomized, active comparator study of use of the KIOS app compared to an existing free app that has high utilization rates known as eMoods, over 52 weeks, and performed in three academic centers. Patients were evaluated monthly utilizing the Bipolar Inventory of Symptoms Schedule (BISS). The primary outcome measure was the persistence of using the app over the year of the study.

Results

Patients assigned to KIOS persisted in the study longer than those assigned to eMood

SUBMITTER: Pahwa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10730767 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature