A Smartphone-Based Self-management Intervention for Individuals With Bipolar Disorder (LiveWell): Protocol Development for an Expert System to Provide Adaptive User Feedback

• DOI: 10.2196/32932
• Publication Date: 2021-10-28T16:45:49Z
• Authors: Evan H Goulding; Cynthia A Dopke; Tania Michaels; Clair R Martin; Monika A Khiani; Christopher Garborg; Chris Karr; Mark Begale
• Keywords: Self-Management

Bipolar disorder is a severe mental illness that results in significant morbidity and mortality. While pharmacotherapy the primary treatment, adjunctive psychotherapy can improve outcomes. However, access to therapy limited. Smartphones other technologies increase therapeutic strategies enhance self-management while simultaneously augmenting care by providing adaptive delivery of content users as well alerts providers facilitate clinical communication. Unfortunately, interventions are being developed tested care, information describing components often not published sufficient detail replication improvement these interventions.