IMMERSE v1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Strategies, processes, contextual factors, outcomes, and costs of implementing Digital Mobile Mental Health in routine care in four European countries: a parallel-group cluster randomized controlled trial
IRAS ID
318332
Contact name
Matthias Schwannauer
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Central Institute of Mental Health
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN15109760
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
Mental health problems affect up to 30% of the population
worldwide and often have a detrimental impact on
functioning and quality of life, despite current
psychopharmacological and psychological interventions.
While mental health care has begun to gradually shift
towards a person-centred approach, shared
decision-making practices remain limited. Research has
shown that making service users active collaborators in their
treatment process may potentially improve engagement
with services, treatment and self-management, better
manage their mental health problems, and help clinicians
tailor treatments closer to the current needs of the
individual service user. IMMERSE aims to investigate how
implementing such a digital tool might affect quality of care
and engagement with mental health services through a
digital mobile mental health intervention (a mobile app)
that will be used by mental health service users along with
the support of their clinicians in order to improve care. The
intervention consists of the MoMent app, a digital
application for smartphones which uses a digital diary
technique to monitor patients’ mental states, moods,
emotions, symptoms, and quality of life over the course of
the day. The intervention also consists of the MoMent
Management Console, which allows clinicians to tailor the
questionnaires provided to service users, and to generate
data that can inform the patient’s care moving forward with
personalised feedback. A total of 432 service users and 100
clinicians across four countries will participate in this
parallel-group cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT).
The investigation, funded by the European Union’s Horizon
2020, will be completed from June 2021 to September 2024
at 8 clinical sites within the UK, Germany, Slovakia, and
Belgium. The goal of the study is to implement the digital
mobile mental health intervention into clinical practice, and
to see how it affects the mental health care of patients by
including them as collaborators in their treatment goals and
practices.REC name
West of Scotland REC 4
REC reference
22/WS/0125
Date of REC Opinion
24 Oct 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion