Effects of a Smartphone-Based Self-management Intervention for Individuals With Bipolar Disorder on Relapse, Symptom Burden, and Quality of Life: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Bipolar disorder-specific psychotherapy combined with pharmacotherapy improves relapse risk, symptom burden, and quality of life, but psychotherapy is not easily accessible.

Objective

To determine if a smartphone-based self-management intervention (LiveWell) can assist individuals with bipolar disorder to maintain wellness.

Design, setting, and participants

An assessor-blind randomized clinical trial enrolled participants from March 20, 2017, to April 25, 2019, with 48-week follow-up ending on April 10, 2020. Participants were randomly assigned to usual care or usual care plus the smartphone intervention stratified by relapse risk based on initial clinical status (low risk: asymptomatic recovery; high risk: continued symptomatic, prodromal, recovering, symp

SUBMITTER: Goulding EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857325 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature