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Effects of Smartphone-based Treatment for Bipolar Disorder - the Smart Bipolar

An interventional study of The Monsenso system with feedback and The Monsenso system without feedback in Bipolar Disorder, sponsored by Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark. Recruiting at 1 site in Denmark. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-06-07.

Sponsored by Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jul 2025, 1 year 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Mar 2021; still recruiting 5 years 7 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The Smart Bipolar RCT is a pragmatic RCT aiming to investigate effects of smartphone-based add on treatment in large scale clinical practice (N= 200 patients).

Read the detailed description

Bipolar disorder is a complex illness with a complex treatment that differs during manic, depressed, and remitted states, frequently leaving patients with decreased quality of life and impaired psychosocial function. IT solutions have during recent years emerged as a possible way to optimize treatment, but the effects of digital health interventions are rarely investigated scientifically in health care services.

This is an application from the entire Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark including all psychiatric centers in the region. The Smart Bipolar randomized controlled trial is a pragmatic trial aiming to investigate the effects of smartphone-based add-on treatment in large-scale clinical practice (N= 200 patients). Findings from the study will have a great impact on future IT monitoring and treatment in bipolar disorder.

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Conditions studied

  • Bipolar Disorder

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In context

Bipolar Disorder

1,601 studies on the registry are indexed under Bipolar Disorder; 254 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 64 across 1,223 interventional studies indexed under Bipolar Disorder.

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Lead sponsor

Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark is the lead sponsor of 51 studies on the registry; 9 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • All patients in CAG Bipolar, i.e., with a main diagnosis of bipolar disorder in the five large centers, in the Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark (Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Psychiatric Center Hilleroed, Psychiatric Center Amager, Psychiatric Center Glostrup and Psychiatric Center Ballerup)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • None
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Monsenso with feedback

    Daily smartphone-based monitoring and treatment using the Monsenso system with a clinical feedback loop feedback.

    Device: The Monsenso system with feedback

  • Active comparator
    Monsenso without feedback

    Daily smartphone-based monitoring and treatment using the Monsenso system WITHOUT a clinical feedback loop feedback.

    Device: The Monsenso system without feedback

  • Active comparator
    Control

    CAG Bipolar treatment alone and daily mood monitoring using only the mood monitoring part of the Monsenso system.

    Device: CAG Bipola and mood monitoring only

Interventions

  • DeviceThe Monsenso system with feedback

    See description under intervention

  • DeviceThe Monsenso system without feedback

    See description under intervention

  • DeviceCAG Bipola and mood monitoring only

    See description under intervention

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Daily self-reported mood instability via Monsenso

    Mood measured daily via smartphones on a scale form -3 to +3.

    Time frame: During the entire study period of 6 months per participant

Secondary outcomes

  1. Risk of psychiatric hospitalization

    Data on hospitalization according to data from the population-based Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register will be collected and analyzed with survival statistics. Assessed blinded for the intervention status.

    Time frame: During the entire study period of 6 months per participant

  2. Cumulated duration of psychiatric hospitalization

    Data on hospitalization according to data from the population-based Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register will be collected and analyzed with survival statistics. Assessed blinded for the intervention status.

    Time frame: During the entire study period of 6 months per participant

  3. Quality of life according to WHO Quality of Life-BREF

    Scored between 0-100. Higher scores indicate higher quality of life. Patient evaluated

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months

  4. Patient-evaluated depressive symptoms according to the Major Depressive Inventory

    Higher scores indicate higher severity of depressive symptoms. Patient evaluated.

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months

  5. Patient-evaluated manic symptoms according to the Altman Self-rating Scale for Mania

    Higher scores indicate higher severity of manic symptoms. Patient evaluated.

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months

  6. Perceived stress according to Cohen's Perceived stress scale

    Patient evaluated. Scores between 0-40. Higher score indicate higher perceived stress.

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months

  7. Satisfaction with care according to scores on the Verona Satisfaction Scale-Affective Disorder

    Patient evaluated. Higher scores indicate higher satisfaction with treatment.

    Time frame: Baseline and 6 months

  8. Adherence to the Danish national guidelines of medical treatment of bipolar disorder according to use of the three main maintenance mood stabilizers for bipolar disorder: lithium, lamotrigine or quetiapine and the use of antidepressants

    Adherence to medication will be an additional outcome measure in arms 1 and 2 of the RCT based on daily self-monitoring of medication via the Monsenso system.

    Time frame: During the entire study period of 6 months

Other outcomes

  1. Patient-reported smartphone-based symptoms

    Patietns-reported smartphone-based symptoms such as stress, anxiety, activity, sleep, mixed mood, adherence to medication and adherence to patient-reported smartphone-based monitoring

    Time frame: During the entire study period of 6 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet
    Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
    • Maria Faurholt-Jepsen · Contact
    • Lars Vedel Kessing · Contact
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 7, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04230421
Lead sponsor
Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark
Collaborators
Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, MD, DMSc, The Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark
Responsible party
Lars Vedel Kessing (Prof., Principal Investigator, Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jan 18, 2020
Start date
Mar 1, 2021
Primary completion
Jul 1, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 1, 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 7, 2023

Study contacts

Lars Vedel Kessing, Prof., MD, DMSc
Contact
lars.vedel.kessing@regionh.dk
+4538647073
Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, MD, DMSc
Contact
maria.faurholtjepsen@regionh.dk
+4538647073

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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