Smartphone app tracks suicide risk when starting antidepressants
NCT ID NCT03327974
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at why some people have more suicidal thoughts when they start or switch antidepressants. 38 adults with major depression used a smartphone app to rate their dark thoughts and mood daily for 30 days. The goal was to better understand and monitor this early risk period.
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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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38 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2017
- Finished
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Apr 2019
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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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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18 to 70 years
- 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: * Diagnosis of a characterized depressive episode assessed by the clinician * Depression score : MADRS\> 20 * Introduction or switch of an antidepressant (without combination of molecules) * Signed informed consent * Able to understand the nature, purpose and methodology of the study * French language * Able to understand and conduct clinical assessments. Exclusion criteria: * The following psychiatric comorbidities: Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcohol dependence and / or any other substance objectivized during the clinical evaluation * Patient presenting a depressive episode characterized with mixed component, psychotic, melancholic or catatonic characteristics * Score MADRS greater than or equal to 5 to one of the items * Subject protected by law (guardianship or curatorship) * Subject in exclusion period from another protocol * Subject not affiliated to, or not beneficiary of, a social security scheme * Pregnant orbreastfeeding patient
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Uhmontpellier
Montpellier, 34295, France