The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of using the Distress Symptoms Mitigation App & Resilience Smart Ring, a drug-free solution for reducing PTSD related symptoms among PTSD diagnosed subjects who are currently involved in a continuation of maintenance supportive therapy.  Participation in this study takes approximately 10 weeks.  

Participants are asked to complete a 55-questions survey designed to gather information about their current mental health and functioning.  During the study, participants are asked to wear the Resilience Smart Ring, which is designed to detect physiological signs of distress, for a period of 10 weeks.  Additionally, during the 10-weeks study period, participants are asked to follow all meditative breathing session prompts per notification by the Distress Symptoms Mitigation App.  At the conclusion of the study, participants are asked to complete the 55-questions survey again. 

The Distress Mitigation App and Resilience Smart Ring are tools that are intended to pre-emptively, independently and effectively control distress symptoms, inclusive of those associated with PTSD.  The Resilience Smart Ring detects distress symptoms before a wearer becomes conscious of them.  Notification from the Distress Mitigation App, running on an iPhone, gives a user an early warning that symptoms are arising and  leads the user through a clinically proven breathing exercise, which may effectively preempt the escalation of symptoms.

Benefits which are expected to accrue via participation in the study include the following:  

• A clinically significant reduction in PTSD symptoms severity (e.g., more energy, less irritability, etc.) as measured by the study surveys.  

• Improved coping skills via app guided training that may enable participants to independently recognize their PTSD triggers earlier, and by doing so allow them to more effectively control their symptoms. 

• Greater resilience; each calming breath, each recovered spike, and each steady night of sleep grows confidence in the ability to mediate uninvited autonomic responses. 

Non-participants may also benefit from the results of this study, as the knowledge gained may benefit future treatments of PTSD and other mental health conditions, which involve the frequent experience of distress.

There are minimal expected risks to participating in the study, which may include boredom, loneliness, and discomfort due to answering survey questions that may be challenging.  The investigators do not guarantee that you will receive any mental health benefit as a direct result of participating in this study.

Click here to see if you meet the preliminary screening criteria to participate in the study.