Can a phone app improve depression care?
NCT ID NCT07087353
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests a smartphone app called Edra PRO that lets doctors check in on patients with moderate to severe depression remotely. About 594 adults will either use the app plus usual care or just usual care for 6 months. The goal is to see if the app helps reduce symptoms and improve quality of life.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Edra PRO (remote monitoring software)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could give doctors a better way to track depression symptoms from home, potentially improving treatment and quality of life.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively early-stage trial testing a digital tool, not a drug. The app may not significantly improve outcomes over usual care, and results depend on patients consistently using it.
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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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About 594 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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 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: * Adults (≥18 years old) meeting ICD-11 criteria for a moderate to severe major depressive episode * Access to a personal smartphone and an internet connection, and cognitively able to use it independently Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women * Individuals under legal guardianship or conservatorship * Ongoing alcohol or drug abuse considered likely to interfere with study participation, as judged by the investigator * Psychiatric or physical comorbidities (e.g., severe neurological or cardiovascular conditions) considered likely to interfere with participation or study results, at the discretion of the Principal Investigator
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
6 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHU Besançon
RECRUITINGBesançon, France
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CHU Grenoble Alpes
RECRUITINGGrenoble, France
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CHU de Lille
RECRUITINGLille, France
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CHU de Toulouse
RECRUITINGToulouse, France
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Cabinet Corinne MARIE
RECRUITINGLisieux, France
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EPSM de VEndée
RECRUITINGLa Roche-sur-Yon, France
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