Recruiting

Mental Health App

Sponsor:

UCLA

Code:

NCT07219095

Conditions

Ankle Injury

Foot Injury

Lower Extremity Injury

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 13 - 18

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Mental Health App

Study Details

Brief summary:

This project aims to enhance self-compassion in adolescent dancers recovering from a foot and ankle injury by incorporating the use of a mental health intervention app using gamified design during their recovery.

Conditions

Ankle Injury

Foot Injury

Lower Extremity Injury

Study ID

NCT07219095

Start date

Nov 15, 2025

Status verified date

Oct, 2025

Completion date

Nov 15, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Nov 15, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 13 - 18

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Provision of informed consent (adult participant), or consent of parent/legal guardian in conjunction with adolescent assent (minor participant)
2. 13 to 18 years of age
3. Endorses dance as their primary sport, or participates 3 days per week or greater in dance prior to injury
4. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures including the intervention regimen and availability for the duration of the study
5. Access to a device with which the SuperBetter app can be downloaded and used

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Dance is not a primary sport or less than 3 days per week spent dancing prior to injury (skater, gymnast, other sport)
2. Requiring surgery or prior surgery for the injury being treated
3. Injury outside of the leg below the knee
4. Known eating disorder or bone density issue (documented abnormal Z score and/or eating disorder diagnosis upon review of the medical chart)
5. Verbalized plans to not return to dance after recovery from the injury

Study Design

Enrollment

50 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: SuperBetter Arm

Those randomized into the treatment group will be completing gamified mental health exercises in an app called SuperBetter for 10 minutes, 5 days per week, for 12 weeks alongside physical therapy.

no intervention: Control Arm

Those randomized into the observation group need only attend their physical therapy appointments and complete the questionnaires but will not use the mental health app.

Interventions

Mental Health App

Participants will use the SuperBetter mobile app to participate in gamified mental health activities 5 days per week, 10 minutes per day, for 12 weeks alongside their physical therapy.

Primary outcome measure

  • Number (or percentage) of participants who have returned to full, unrestricted dance after injury [ Time Frame: 3, 6 and 12 months. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Emily O Cidambi, MD

858-576-1700ecidambi@rchsd.org

Locations

Rady Children's Hospital

Recruiting

San Diego, California, United States, 92123

Contacts

Macy J Dexter

858-576-1700mdexter1@rchsd.org

More Information

Sponsor

University of California, San Diego

Last update posted

Oct 21, 2025

Last verified

Oct, 2025

Keywords

  • dance
  • self-compassion

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, San Diego on 2025-10-21.