Feasibility of a Mobile Health App for Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback in Mutual Support Groups Coordinated by SMART Recovery Australia: Protocol for a Pilot Study

Peter J. Kelly; Alison K. Beck; Amanda L. Baker; Frank P. Deane; Leanne Hides; Victoria Manning; Anthony Shakeshaft; Briony Larance; Joanne Neale; John Kelly; Christopher Oldmeadow; Andrew Searles; Carla Treloar; Rebecca M. Gray; Angela Argent; Ryan McGlaughlin

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Feasibility of a Mobile Health App for Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback in Mutual Support Groups Coordinated by SMART Recovery Australia: Protocol for a Pilot Study

Peter J. Kelly, Alison K. Beck, Amanda L. Baker, Frank P. Deane, Leanne Hides, Victoria Manning, Anthony Shakeshaft, Briony Larance, Joanne Neale, John Kelly, …

JMIR Research Protocols, Vol.9(7), pp.1-17

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/15113

PMID: 32673272

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Abstract

SMART Recovery

mutual support group

mutual aid

routine outcome monitoring

treatment progress feedback

mHealth

addiction

mobile phone

Background: Despite the importance and popularity of mutual support groups, there have been no systematic attempts to implement and evaluate routine outcome monitoring (ROM) in these settings. Unlike other mutual support groups for addiction, trained facilitators lead all Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART Recovery) groups, thereby providing an opportunity to implement ROM as a routine component of SMART Recovery groups. Objective: This study protocol aims to describe a stage 1 pilot study designed to explore the feasibility and acceptability of a novel, purpose-built mobile health (mHealth) ROM and feedback app (Smart Track) in SMART Recovery groups coordinated by SMART Recovery Australia (SRAU) The secondary objectives are to describe Smart Track usage patterns, explore psychometric properties of the ROM items (ie, internal reliability and convergent and divergent validity), and provide preliminary evidence for participant reported outcomes (such as alcohol and other drug use, self-reported recovery, and mental health). Methods: Participants (n=100) from the SMART Recovery groups across New South Wales, Australia, will be recruited to a nonrandomized, prospective, single-arm trial of the Smart Track app. There are 4 modes of data collection: (1) ROM data collected from group participants via the Smart Track app, (2) data analytics summarizing user interactions with Smart Track, (3) quantitative interview and survey data of group participants (baseline, 2-week follow-up, and 2-month follow-up), and (4) qualitative interviews with group participants (n=20) and facilitators (n=10). Feasibility and acceptability (primary objectives) will be analyzed using descriptive statistics, a cost analysis, and a qualitative evaluation. Results: At the time of submission, 13 sites (25 groups per week) had agreed to be involved. Funding was awarded on August 14, 2017, and ethics approval was granted on April 26, 2018 (HREC/18/WGONG/34; 2018/099). Enrollment is due to commence in July 2019. Data collection is due to be finalized in October 2019. Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to use ROM and tailored feedback within a mutual support group setting for addictive behaviors. Our study design will provide an opportunity to identify the acceptability of a novel mHealth ROM and feedback app within this setting and provide detailed information on what factors promote or hinder ROM usage within this context. This project aims to offer a new tool, should Smart Track prove feasible and acceptable, that service providers, policy makers, and researchers could use in the future to understand the impact of SMART Recovery groups.

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Title: Feasibility of a Mobile Health App for Routine Outcome Monitoring and Feedback in Mutual Support Groups Coordinated by SMART Recovery Australia: Protocol for a Pilot Study
Authors: Peter J. Kelly (Corresponding Author) - University of Wollongong
Alison K. Beck - University of Wollongong
Amanda L. Baker - University of Newcastle Australia
Frank P. Deane - University of Wollongong
Leanne Hides - The University of Queensland
Victoria Manning - Eastern Health
Anthony Shakeshaft - UNSW Sydney
Briony Larance - University of Wollongong
Joanne Neale - King's College London
John Kelly - Harvard University
Christopher Oldmeadow - Hunter Medical Research Institute
Andrew Searles - Hunter Medical Research Institute
Carla Treloar - UNSW Sydney
Rebecca M. Gray - UNSW Sydney
Angela Argent - SMART Recovery Australia
Ryan McGlaughlin - SMART Recovery Australia
Publication details: JMIR Research Protocols, Vol.9(7), pp.1-17
Publisher: JMIR Publications, Inc.
Date published: 2020
DOI: 10.2196/15113
ISSN: 1929-0748
PMID: 32673272
Copyright note: ©Peter J Kelly, Alison K Beck, Amanda L Baker, Frank P Deane, Leanne Hides, Victoria Manning, Anthony Shakeshaft, Briony Larance, Joanne Neale, John Kelly, Christopher Oldmeadow, Andrew Searles, Carla Treloar, Rebecca M Gray, Angela Argent, Ryan McGlaughlin. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (http://www.researchprotocols.org), 09.07.2020. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
Grant note: Funding for this research was provided by the NSW Ministry of Health under the NSW Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Early Intervention Innovation Grant Scheme.
Organisation Unit: School of Health - Psychology
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991242162902621
Output Type: Journal article

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