Mobile Phone Application Mental Health Support
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The National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Dissemination and Training Division is responsible for developing and evaluating a series of mental health phone applications. This contract is designed to enhance development and assessment of phone applications for the project. This project is concerned with assessment of mobile phone application technology in VHA field PTSD treatment settings. It will focus on the appraisal of the PTSD Coach Application Suite in two specialized PTSD treatment programs, in terms of 1) effects on PTSD patient understanding of PTSD, ability to manage acute distress, use of coping tools, and other outcomes, and 2) factors affecting provider and patient use of the app as an adjunct to care.
Additionally, this contract is to assist with assessment of a Smartphone application that gathers data on PTSD symptoms/outcomes for the project. This project is concerned with development, implementation, analysis, and appraisal of data-gathering capability on a PTSD Smartphone application. It will focus on 1) modification of the existing PTSD Coach Application Suite to enable measurement of mental health symptoms, coping skills utilization, and other variables to be determined, and 2) development of a visual display of captured data available in electronic health record.
