RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06509360

How do You Feelee? Emotion-based Smartphone App in the Forensic Outpatient Setting

How do You Feelee? Does an Ordinary Question a Day Supports Youth in a Forensic Outpatient Setting to Become More Emotional Balanced? A Multiple Case Experimental Design

Sponsor

Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc

Enrollment

24 participants

Start Date

Aug 3, 2023

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Emotion Regulation Emotional Neglect

Summary

This intervention study aims to explore the addition of the Feelee app (using active emoji data with passive behavioral data through phone sensing) in treatment as usual for adolescents in the forensic outpatient setting. Participants will use Feelee for 4 weeks, which means specifying an emoji each day and collecting the passive data on the background. The collected active and passive data will be discussed through the clinicians during the participants' weekly treatment sessions.

Eligibility

Min Age: 12 YearsMax Age: 23 Years

Inclusion Criteria4

At the time of the study in treatment at a forensic outreach youth care organization.
Expected to be in treatment for at least another 3 months.
Using a smartphone with Android or IOS operating system.
Have basic understanding about the use of a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria3

Adolescents with serious psychiatric problems, such as psychosis or high risk of suicide
Insufficient understanding of spoken and written Dutch language.
Adolescents without a smartphone.

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Interventions

DEVICEFeelee app

Adolescents uses the Feelee app for 4-weeks in addition to treatment as usual in the forensic outpatient setting. The use of Feelee involves: submitting one emoji every day and allow the Feelee app to read the following passive data from the health app on the smartphone: number of steps and number of hours of sleep. The collected Feelee data will be presented in a dashboard in the Feelee app itself which will be discussed by the clinician in the weekly treatment session (in case the adolescents agreed to show the Feelee data to the clinician).