Habit Awareness Device for Treatment of Onychophagia

Part of paid clinical trials in New York, New York.

Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Study ID: NCT06111729
Status: Recruiting

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Conditions

Nail Biting

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: ALL
Age: 18 Years - 95 Years
Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

HabitAware group — DEVICE
A device that provides gentle vibration when the motion of nail biting is sensed will be provided to all participants. Participants will use an app that connects to the device to track the frequency of their nail biting over the study period.

Study Details

This clinical trial wants to find out if using a special bracelet that vibrates gently whenever someone with a nail-biting problem bites their nails can help them stop. The investigators are looking at adults who bite their nails a lot. If this bracelet works, it could make nail-biters bite their nails less and have a better life. The main question the investigators are trying to answer is: "Does the gentle vibration from the bracelet make people bite their nails less?" The investigators will give participants a bracelet that vibrates when it senses nail-biting for 12 weeks. Participants will need to download an app that connects to the bracelet. This app will help the investigators keep track of how often participants get these vibration signals and see if nail-biting decreases while using the bracelet.

Key Dates

First listed: Nov 1, 2023
Start date: Jan 24, 2023
Status verified: Apr 2026
Primary completion: May 31, 2027
Completion: May 31, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment: 10 participants (estimated)
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Arms

Experimental: HabitAware Participants
Patients will be asked to wear the HabitAwareness bracelet for 12 weeks. The bracelet provides the attention stimulus of gentle vibration when the motion of nail biting is sensed.

Primary Outcome Measure

Mean Change in Nail Biting Behavior as Measured by Number of Patient Reported Vibrations a Day [ Time Frame: baseline; 4 weeks; 8 weeks; 12 weeks ]

Central Contacts

Eden Axler, BS
6469623376
[email protected]
Amit Singal, BA
2019144096

Locations (1)

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site coordinators
Weill Cornell Department of Dermatology	New York	New York	10022	Shari Lipner, MD, PhD [email protected] Eden Axler, BS [email protected] Shari Lipner, MD, PhD (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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