Digital Support for Mental Health Intervention in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Description

This is a small, exploratory study that will investigate using an artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR), digital wellness application (app) to deliver a mental health support session in outpatient and hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and co-existing symptoms of mild to moderate anxiety or depression. The purpose of this study is to explore if a mental health support session using the app is feasible, safe, and acceptable to IBD patients and whether it could possibly help with physical and comorbid psychological symptoms of these patients.

Conditions

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Anxiety, Depression, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn Disease

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This is a small, exploratory study that will investigate using an artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR), digital wellness application (app) to deliver a mental health support session in outpatient and hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and co-existing symptoms of mild to moderate anxiety or depression. The purpose of this study is to explore if a mental health support session using the app is feasible, safe, and acceptable to IBD patients and whether it could possibly help with physical and comorbid psychological symptoms of these patients.

Digital Support for Mental Health Intervention in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Digital Support for Mental Health Intervention in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Condition
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * 18+ years of age
  • * Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis)
  • * English-speaking
  • * Patients with score of 5-14 on General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) questionnaire or 5-19 on Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) within 3 months
  • * Able to provide written consent
  • * Unwilling and/or unable to participate
  • * Non-English speakers
  • * Self-reported history of severe motion sickness
  • * The presence of a facial/head deformity that will prohibit comfortably wearing of a VR headset
  • * Legally blind or deaf
  • * Having had a seizure in the past year
  • * Unable to understand the instructions or to consent to participation in the study.
  • * Those who are pregnant

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Chicago,

David T Rubin, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Chicago

Study Record Dates

2025-09