A relational agent for treating substance use in adults: A randomized controlled trial with a psychoeducational comparator.

Judith J Prochaska¹, Maggie Wang², Amy Chieng³, Jessie Moore³, Erin A Vogel⁴, Michael Baiocchi⁵, Sarah Pajarito⁶, Maddison C Pirner⁶, Lauren Bullard⁶, Alison Darcy⁶, Athena Robinson⁶

¹Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, United States. Electronic address: jpro@stanford.edu.

²Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, School of Medicine, Stanford University, United States.

³Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, United States.

⁴TSET Health Promotion Research Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, United States.

⁵Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, United States.

⁶Woebot Health, United States.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Highly accessible and scalable, digital mental health interventions can reduce barriers associated with traditional treatment. Woebot for Substance Use Disorders (W-SUD) is a smartphone application in development that uses Woebot, a guided self-help relational agent intended to offer support to track and reduce problematic substance use. Two formative studies supported W-SUD's feasibil…

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