Stay Well at Home: a Text-messaging Study Social Distancing

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2020
The investigators have developed supportive text-messages in English and Spanish to help people cope with the stress and anxiety of COVID-19 social distancing. The purpose of this study is to examine if automated text-messages will improve depression and anxiety symptoms and enhance positive mood. Additionally, the investigators will compare the effectiveness of sending messages on a random schedule (using a micro-randomized trial design) or sent by a reinforcement learning policy on overall change in depression and anxiety symptoms and daily mood during the 8-week study.
Epistemonikos ID: c0cbdbc560990b40bce7f790a1145f03ce2ef026
First added on: Jul 18, 2020