MooDoC

MooDoC assists with your antidepressant medication management.

The MooDoC app is currently only accessible to participants of the Antidepressant Advisor Trial at King’s College London, UK (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03628027). The app was developed by the study team in collaboration with AllocModulo Ltd. It allows weekly tracking of symptoms of depression using the novel Maudsley-modified version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, side effects of medication using an adaptation of a validated questionnaire (FIBSER, Wisniewski et al., 2006), and screening for hypomania with an adaptation of the WHO CIDI 3.0 Bipolar Screening Scale (Dr Ronald C Kessler). The app further includes questions about self-blame-related action tendencies and allows the user to enter weekly changes in antidepressant prescriptions. A daily reminder question about taking antidepressant medications is included. Results of weekly depression scores are sent to the email address of the responsible doctor/health professional using standard encryption from the server. Alerts about disabling side effects or hypomanic symptoms are sent to the health professional as well and participants receive in-app notifications of these alerts. In addition, the app displays weekly depression scores in a graphical display allowing participants to track progress of their treatment. The use of the app is currently limited to the 16 weeks of the clinical trial. Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in Mood Disorders at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust is responsible for data management and security of participants’ data which are used for research into predicting response to antidepressant treatments.

This app is part of independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR: PB-PG-0416-20039). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.