Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2020
Mobile enhancement of motivation in schizophrenia: A pilot randomized controlled trial of a personalized text message intervention for motivation deficits.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital Therapeutics for People with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review of Their Effect on Symptoms and Functioning.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Pooled it
- Brief psychological interventions for schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators of User Engagement With Digital Mental Health Interventions for People With Psychosis or Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review and Best-Fit Framework Synthesis.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Adverse Events Reporting in Digital Interventions Evaluations for Psychosis: A Systematic Literature Search and Individual Level Content Analysis of Adverse Event Reports.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- A Digital Therapeutic Intervention for Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Revisiting the Defeatist Performance Belief Scale in Adults With Schizophrenia and Youth at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis: A Comprehensive Psychometric Analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Effectiveness, Engagement, and Safety of a Digital Therapeutic (CT-155/BI 3972080) for Treating Negative Symptoms in People With Schizophrenia: Protocol for the Phase 3 CONVOKE Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Probabalistic reinforcement learning impairments predict negative symptom severity and risk for conversion in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Patient Perspectives on a Digital Therapeutic for Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Evaluation of an App for Negative Symptoms.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2025Article
- Prescription Digital Therapeutics: An Emerging Treatment Option for Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia.Biological psychiatry · 2024Review
- Global reward processing deficits predict negative symptoms transdiagnostically and transphasically in a severe mental illness-spectrum sample.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Leveraging Personal Technologies in the Treatment of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- Social anhedonia in the daily lives of people with schizophrenia: Examination of anticipated and consummatory pleasure.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Negative symptoms in schizophrenia differ across environmental contexts in daily life.Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
- The Dangers of Small Samples and Insufficient Methodological Detail.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- The Role of Disability Benefits as an Environmental Factor Contributing to Negative Symptoms.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Educational Technologies for Teaching Social Skills to Individuals With Schizophrenia: Scoping Review.OTJR : occupation, participation and health · 2023Article
- Examining Potential Barriers to mHealth Implementation and Engagement in Schizophrenia: Phone Ownership and Symptom Severity.Journal of technology in behavioral science · 2022Article
- The centrality of motivation in psychosocial functioning: Network and bifactor analysis of the Quality of Life Scale in first-episode psychosis.Psychological assessment · 2022Article
- An mHealth App-Based Self-management Intervention for Family Members of Pediatric Transplant Recipients (myFAMI): Framework Design and Development Study.JMIR nursing · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveMotivation deficits remain an unmet treatment need in schizophrenia. Recent research has identified mechanisms underlying motivation deficits (i.e., impaired effort-cost computations, reduced future reward-value representation maintenance) that may be effective treatment targets to improve motivation. This study tested the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of Mobile Enhancement of Motivation in Schizophrenia (MEMS), an intervention that leverages mobile technology to target these mechanisms with text messages.
methodFifty-six participants with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder were randomized to MEMS (n = 27) or a control condition (n = 29). All participants set recovery goals to complete over 8 weeks. Participants in the MEMS group additionally received personalized, interactive text messages on their personal cellphones each weekday.
resultsRetention and engagement in MEMS were high: 92.6% completed 8 weeks of MEMS, with an 86.1% text message response rate, and 100% reported being satisfied with the text messages. Compared to participants in the control condition, the participants in the MEMS condition had significantly greater improvements in interviewer-rated motivation and anticipatory pleasure and attained significantly more recovery-oriented goals at 8 weeks. There were no significant group differences in purported mechanisms (performance-based effort-cost computations and future reward-value representations) or in self-reported motivation, quality of life, or functioning.
conclusionResults demonstrate that MEMS is feasible as a brief, low-intensity mobile intervention that could effectively improve some aspects of motivation (i.e., initiation and maintenance of goal-directed behaviors) and recovery goal attainment for those with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. More work is needed with larger samples and to understand the mechanisms of change in MEMS. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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