Social Factors in the Mental Health of Young Adults: Bridging Psychological and Network Analysis

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

2000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-08-30

Study Completion Date

2026-05-01

Brief Summary

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The central goal of this project is to produce a novel, precise, and comprehensive account of social factors in young adult mental health - using a novel combination of network nominations, ecological momentary assessment, and neuroimaging methods. To that end, the investigators will collect data from two successive classes of college undergraduates (i.e., classes of 2023 and 2024) over the course of their collegiate tenure.

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Detailed Description

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The proposed work will consist of four key components. The investigators will collect data from the class of 2023 in each of their remaining years at college, producing (i) longitudinal data that will allow them to probe the long-term mental health effects of connections made during the transition to college, as well as mental health issues and resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as a function of social connectedness. The investigators will leverage this rich dataset to build (ii) prospective quantitative models to predict mental health outcomes later in college based on a range of social factors measured early in college. They will further collect (iii) a longitudinal replication cohort, the class of 2024, allowing to establish the robustness of their initial findings across samples. Finally, the investigators will add (iv) a neuroimaging component to this dataset in a subset of the class of 2024. This will allow them to examine brain "markers" of connectedness, and add them to a prospective model, providing a novel integration across brain, behavior, and community levels of analysis, and a synthetic assessment of social factors in long-term mental health.

Conditions

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Anxiety Depression Loneliness Stress

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Class of 2023 and 2024

Stanford undergraduate students who are expected to graduate in Spring of 2023 or 2024

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Examination of students' naturally occurring social ties

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

In this observational study, features of students' social lives, such as the number of quality of relationships they form, and their subjective loneliness, will be used to predict their mental health and well being at later time points.

Interventions

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Examination of students' naturally occurring social ties

In this observational study, features of students' social lives, such as the number of quality of relationships they form, and their subjective loneliness, will be used to predict their mental health and well being at later time points.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL