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NCT05991154
JoyPop Mobile Mental Health App With Indigenous Transitional-Aged Youth
NA trial testing Usual Practice + JoyPop in Emotion Regulation in 110 participants. Currently enrolling.
31 December 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Lakehead University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 110 |
| Start date | 11 August 2023 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across Canada |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Usual Practice + JoyPop
Conditions studied
- Emotion Regulation — all drugs for Emotion Regulation →
- Depression — all drugs for Depression →
- Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →
- Stress — all drugs for Stress →
Sponsor
Lakehead University
Who can join
Adults 18 to 25, any sex, with Emotion Regulation or Depression. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Indigenous youth in Northwestern Ontario who need mental health supports experience longer waits than non-Indigenous youth within the region and when compared to youth in other more urban areas. Limited access and extended waits can exacerbate symptoms, prolong distress, and increase risk for more serious outcomes. Transitional aged youth (i.e., those in their mid-late teens to early twenties) are a particularly vulnerable group. Novel, innovative approaches are urgently needed to provide support for Indigenous youth in Northwestern Ontario. In partnership with Dilico Anishinabek Family Care, the investigators are evaluating the impact of a mental health app (JoyPop) as a tool for Indigenous transitional-aged youth who are waiting for mental health services. The JoyPop app was developed to support improved emotion regulation - a key difficulty for youth presenting with mental health challenges. A two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the app compared to usual practice while Indigenous transitional-aged youth are waiting for mental health services.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Increasing Access to Mental Health Supports for 18- to 25-Year-Old Indigenous Youth With the JoyPop Mobile Mental Health App: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
MacIsaac A, Neufeld T, Malik I, Toombs E, et al · · 2025 · cited 1× · PMID 39883939 · DOI 10.2196/64745
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05991154 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Lakehead University
- Last refreshed: 5 September 2025
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