Smartphone app aims to ease PTSD and depression in veterans
NCT ID NCT06689787
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study will test a mobile app designed to help veterans who have both PTSD and depression. The app teaches skills to manage emotions and relationships, based on a proven talk therapy. Forty veterans will use the app and answer surveys to see if it improves their daily functioning and mental health.
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Study facts
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- 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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About 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Apr 2027
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- Expected to finish
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Apr 2029
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- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a US federal agency other than the NIH.
Who can take part
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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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: * Veteran * enrolled in VA care * fluent in English * able to provide informed consent * own a smartphone or willing to use a study-provided smartphone * have diagnoses of current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) * willing to not begin another form of Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) during the study Exclusion Criteria: * history of mania or psychosis * current suicidal ideation with plan and intent to harm self * acute intoxication from alcohol or other substances * current or past experience with any form of STAIR
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, California, 94304-1207, United States
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