Effectiveness of brief daily training using a mobile app in reducing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms: Examining real world data of “OCD.app - Anxiety, mood & sleep”

Can a Mobile Game-like Intervention Help Women with Anxiety and Depression? Examining real world data of ‘OCD.app - Anxiety, Mood & Sleep’

“…These effects were moderated by group and suggested that women in the reproductive age group bene ted from the intervention more than women in the midlife group. This nding may be attributed to the higher baseline (T0) depression scores found in the RA group re ecting a wider range of possible improvement, but it is also consistent with previous ndings showing stronger effects of the GGtude intervention for users with more severe symptoms 45 .…”

“…Secondary outcomes included rates of 'signi cant improvement' clinical improvement, based on PHQ-9 (Change > 5 52 ) and GAD-7 (Change > 4 51 ) at TFinal. State and trait mood were assessed using a VAS depicting ve faces, on a scale from 1 to 5, ranging from very sad to very happy 45,46 .Trait mood was calculated as the average of a women''s daily answers which were mean-centered across women. State mood was calculated as the difference between a woman's response on the day of the assessment and the average of their daily answers.…”

“…Despite different trajectories along the way both age groups we expect using the anxiety and depression modules of ocd.app would be associated with reductions in GAD-7 and PHQ-9 scores at both T1 and T-Final assessment points. Stronger effects are expected for women completing all levels of the corresponding modules as they trained longer and increased the activation of adaptive relative to maladaptive cognitions facilitating their retrieval as well as having learned to challenge a greater number of different maladaptive beliefs 45,47 .…”

“…"OCD.app, Anxiety, Mood & Sleep'' (ocd.app) is a mobile app on the GGtude platform that includes brief CBT-based daily exercises targeting maladaptive beliefs associated with various mental health symptoms. Eight randomized controlled trials (RCTs) [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] in various countries (e.g., US, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Israel), as well as real world data analyses 45,46 have consistently linked training on the GGtude platform with signi cant reductions in a variety of mental health symptoms.…”

“…Training on the GGtude platform has been suggested to decrease users' mental health symptoms by altering the balance between adaptive and maladaptive cognitions 45 . Users' ability to produce and retrieve adaptive self-statements may increase through repeated exposure to such self-statements.…”