Integrating CBT-informed approaches into the CareLoop app

For people living with psychosis, a relapse can be a distressing and overwhelming experience. Only about 20% of people who experience psychosis fully recover. For the remaining 80%, the risk of relapse is significant — around 25% each year. Each relapse can be harder to treat than the last, causing more disruption to daily life and sometimes leading to long hospital stays.

For people living with psychosis, timely access to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is crucial in managing symptoms and reducing the risk of relapse. CBTp is recommended in the NICE guidelines as a key therapeutic approach, but providing fast access is becoming increasingly challenging. Demand for CBTp has never been higher, with waiting times reaching up to two years in parts of the country.

This is why we have been working on a blended approach to scaling up this much-needed mental health provision. In the coming months, we will be launching a crucial update to our CareLoop app that will offer CBT-informed content alongside our current features.

The CareLoop app uses active symptom monitoring (ASM) to spot personalised changes that could indicate a risk of relapse, and flags this to an individual’s care team for timely intervention. Our new product update will introduce on-demand CBT-informed content to support self-management and enhance service engagement to empower a person’s care journey.

These CBT-informed resources have been robustly tested in clinical trials, where they were found to be safe, well-received by users, and associated with positive clinical outcomes. The trials showed that these CBT-informed resources led to better engagement — both in terms of frequency and duration —compared to ASM alone. Rolling out these engaging resources in the CareLoop app will allow us to assess their impact on adherence and engagement on a larger and longer-term scale.

We are excited to share more detail on this product update when we launch this summer and, in the long-term, to share updates on how the CBT-informed resources are impacting use of the app and potentially informing and augmenting traditional methods of CBT for psychosis.

If you would like to hear more about this product update and the CareLoop app, email contact@careloop.health