Technology Assisted Treatment for Trichotillomania

Conditions

Keen2 bracelet — DEVICE
Participants will receive an awareness bracelet (Keen2) which vibrates upon detection of hair pulling motion, supporting behavior therapy for hair pulling delivered by the Keen2 app.
Reminder bracelet — DEVICE
Participants will receive a non-vibrating bracelet to wear as a visual reminder not to pull.
Keen2 app — BEHAVIORAL
Participants will be given access to a smartphone app. The bracelet and app work together to implement key features of habit reversal training for TTM, including psychoeducation, awareness training, competing response training, and personalized just-in-time stimulus control and other behavioral strategy reminders.
Health Reminders App — BEHAVIORAL
Participants will be given access to a smartphone app that will prompt them to log their context (e.g., location and activity) throughout the day and provide general health tips.

The investigators are testing two digital health interventions for trichotillomania (TTM), via a randomized trial design.

Experimental: Keen2 bracelet and app
8-week intervention involving a wrist-worn motion detection device (Keen2 bracelet) and accompanying smartphone app that delivers components of behavior therapy for TTM.
Placebo Comparator: Reminder bracelet and health tips app
8-week intervention involving a wrist-worn reminder device (non-vibrating bracelet) and accompanying smartphone app that prompts for general context logging and delivers general health tips.

Clinician-rated trichotillomania (TTM) symptom severity at endpoint (week 8) [ Time Frame: Eight weeks ]

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site coordinators
Department of Psychological Sciences	Kent	Ohio	44242	Christopher Flessner, PhD [email protected] (330) 672-2200

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