Brief App-based Mood Monitoring and Mindfulness Intervention for First-year College Students

NCT ID: NCT06348277

Last Updated: 2024-04-04

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

130 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-01-02

Study Completion Date

2020-06-17

Brief Summary

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The investigators examined whether brief, app-based interventions were helpful in alleviating mental health symptoms during the transition to college. In particular, the investigators were interested in whether a brief mobile-app mindfulness intervention combined with mood monitoring was more effective in alleviating first-year students' psychological distress than mood monitoring alone.

Detailed Description

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The transition to college is associated with worsening mental health symptoms. This study tested whether a brief mobile-app mindfulness intervention combined with mood monitoring was more effective in alleviating first-year students' psychological distress than mood monitoring alone. Participants were 130 first-year students. The investigators randomly assigned 88 students to a mindfulness-plus-mood-monitoring or a mood-monitoring-only group and asked them to use an app 3 times a day for 3 weeks. They, along with an assessment-only control group (n=42), completed self-report questionnaires at baseline, post-intervention, and 6 and 12 weeks later.

Conditions

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Depression, Anxiety Self-Injurious Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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MIndfulness Plus Mood Monitoring

Mobile app that involved mood monitoring and brief mindfulness exercises.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mindfulness plus mood monitoring

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

mobile app that provides guided mindfulness exercises in addition to prompting for mood monitoring three times per day

Mood Monitoring Only

Mobile app that involved only mood monitoring

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Mood monitoring

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

mobile app that prompts for mood monitoring three times per day

Assessment only Control

Only completed assessments

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Mindfulness plus mood monitoring

mobile app that provides guided mindfulness exercises in addition to prompting for mood monitoring three times per day

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Mood monitoring

mobile app that prompts for mood monitoring three times per day

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* enrolled first-year student at university

Exclusion Criteria

* serious suicidal concerns
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Lawrence University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Lori M Hilt, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Lawrence University

Locations

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Lawrence University

Appleton, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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121119

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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