A Digital Therapeutic to Advance the Delivery of Effective Interventions for Suicide Prevention

NIH RePORTER · NIH · R43 · $481,035 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

ABSTRACT Suicide is a top ten cause of death in the US and rates of suicide have increased steadily for the last twenty years. Despite this, there is a paucity of research on treatment programs designed to reduce suicide attempts and none that include a digital therapeutic. In this Phase I SBIR application Oui Therapeutics, LLC proposes a project to: 1) create a beta version of the Oui app (called “Aviva”), a CBT-based digital therapeutic to reduce the risk of suicide across diagnoses; and 2) to test the usability and feasibility of the Beta version of Aviva in a single-group, open-label trial. The digital therapeutic being studied is built on face-to-face CBT treatment protocols proven to be effective in clinical trials. Successful execution of the goals of this Phase I project will generate a version of Aviva that is ready to be tested for efficacy with stabilized patients in a clinical trial. In the long term, this project will have a beneficial impact on the field of suicide prevention through the development of mobile technology designed to advance the delivery and dissemination of effective interventions.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10010336
Project number
1R43MH123357-01
Recipient
OUI THERAPEUTICS, INC
Principal Investigator
Seth Feuerstein
Activity code
R43
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$481,035
Award type
1
Project period
2020-07-23 → 2021-07-22