Improving College Students' Mental Help-Seeking Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic
NCT ID: NCT05451706
Last Updated: 2024-02-06
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
926 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2020-10-01
2021-01-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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A four-armed randomized controlled experiment was conducted to compare two self-persuasion methods against two control conditions. Assessments took place at baseline (T0), post-first treatment (T1), post-second treatment (six weeks, T2), and ten-week follow-up (T3).
The results showed that the intervention significantly increased students' help-seeking intention, attitude, and efficacy at different time points. It also reduced mental help-seeking-related stigma after the first task.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
SINGLE
Study Groups
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YouTube Intervention
Participants assigned to this task were asked to search YouTube for a 5-10 minutes' video promoting mental help-seeking among college students. Then, they were expected to provide the link to the video and describe the content of the video. Next, participants were guided to form rebuttals disapproving three statements that rationalize students' low intention to seek mental help.
Mental help-seeking self-persuasion
Employing a longitudinal design, this study used a self-persuasion framework in a 4-arm intervention to increase college students' help-seeking intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facebook Intervention
This task was to draft a Facebook message for the participants' fellow students. In their message, participants were expected to list three reasons for seeking mental help. The length of the message was not pre-determined.
Mental help-seeking self-persuasion
Employing a longitudinal design, this study used a self-persuasion framework in a 4-arm intervention to increase college students' help-seeking intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
YouTube Control Group
Participants in this group were assigned a YouTube task advocating social distancing during a pandemic. The question prompts were modified from the tasks for the experimental groups.
Mental help-seeking self-persuasion
Employing a longitudinal design, this study used a self-persuasion framework in a 4-arm intervention to increase college students' help-seeking intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facebook Control Group
Participants in this group were assigned a Facebook task advocating social distancing during a pandemic. The question prompts were modified from the tasks for the experimental groups.
Mental help-seeking self-persuasion
Employing a longitudinal design, this study used a self-persuasion framework in a 4-arm intervention to increase college students' help-seeking intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interventions
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Mental help-seeking self-persuasion
Employing a longitudinal design, this study used a self-persuasion framework in a 4-arm intervention to increase college students' help-seeking intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Full-time undergraduate students
* Had more than a moderate amount of mental distress
Exclusion Criteria
* Not full-time undergraduate students
* Had less than a moderate amount of mental distress
18 Years
100 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Cleveland State University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Qiwei Luna Wu
Assistant Professor
Principal Investigators
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Qiwei Wu
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Cleveland State University
Locations
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Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, United States
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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ClevelandSU
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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