Can a web app get people moving in mental health residential care?
NCT ID NCT07746609
First seen Aug 05, 2026 · Last updated Aug 07, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This trial is testing a web-based app called Active Ease, designed to help people with severe mental illness living in residential care become more physically active. The app includes educational content and guided exercise demonstrations. Researchers will compare two residential houses using the app against one house receiving usual care, measuring physical activity levels and gathering feedback from participants.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Active Ease, a co-designed web-based digital physical activity application with guided visual demonstrations
- What this could lead to
- If effective, this digital tool could offer a practical way to help people with severe mental illness in residential care become more physically active, potentially improving their overall health and well-being.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small early-stage study with only 18 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention's success depends on user engagement and may not lead to lasting changes in physical activity.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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18 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Feb 2024
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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19 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged 19+ * Have an SMI of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or psychosis. * A service user within one of three HSE mental health residential houses. Capacity to understand the research and consent to the research (Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015). * Approved by their clinician. Exclusion Criteria: * No SMI diagnosis * Acute psychiatric episode at the time of recruitment * Service users who are unwell/ distressed
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Munster Technological University
Cork, T12P928, Ireland
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