Treating Depression on a Day-to-day Basis: Development of a Tool for Physicians Based on a Smartphone Application

Summary

Testing and validating an e-health (smartphone application) approach to better understand the determinants of day-to-day symptomatology in depression, medication adherence, and treatment efficacy in the goal of maximizing patient care.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age between 18 and 65 years;
* Fulfilling the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual version IV (DSM-IV) criteria of depression assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview;
* Patients started their antidepressant treatment less than 5 days before inclusion;
* Patient treated in an outpatient setting;
* Patient informed of the diagnosis of his disease;
* Informed patient with written consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* A current mental or psychiatric impairment or disease (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) that required psychotropic medication or inpatient treatment on a psychiatric ward;
* A history of psychosis, including schizophrenia, bipolar I or bipolar II disorder, and major depressive disorder with psychotic features;
* Cognitive deficit and not thus being able to comprehend the informed consent and study procedure;
* Patients with somatic, cognitive or other disorders preventing the use of the device (deafness, impaired vision, illiteracy….);
* Non-comprehension of the French language

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