Clinical trial NCT05047081: From Intention to Action:Scoring Your College Goals
Official title: Scoring Your College Goals: A Study to Increase Self-Efficacy in First-Year College Students
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depression
Anxiety
Keywords: Depression
Anxiety
College Mental Health
Mental Health Prevention
Lead sponsor: The Zucker Hillside Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: College of Staten Island, the City University of New York
First posted: 2021-09-16
Enrollment: 126
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The current study aims to prevent the developmental of mental health symptoms in first-year college students through providing a workshop aimed at preparing students for the academic, social, and personal challenges associated with typical college experiences. Specifically, the study hypothesizes that first-year student students who participate in a workshop on college readiness will report fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, higher levels of self-esteem, and better academic performance compared to a similar group of students who do not receive the intervention (the control group). Students in the intervention group will participate in a one-time, two-hour workshop that discusses expectations about college, setting goals that are aligned with one's values, predicting barriers to achieving these goals, and how to overcome these obstacles. The workshop will provide students with external resources (both on and off campus) for obtaining additional support to address barriers that arise during their college experiences. Students will complete questionnaires about symptoms of depression, anxiety, and their ability to cope with stress before the workshop, after the workshop, and at the end of their first semester. At the end of the Fall 2021 semester, students will be asked to share information about their Grade Point Average (GPA) and academic status. The investigators predict that at the end of the semester, those students who participated in the workshop will report lower levels of depression, anxiety and stress, higher levels of self-esteem, and a higher GPA compared to students who did not receive the intervention. Students who participated in the workshop will also be more likely to continue (enrolled in the Spring 2022 semester) compared to controls.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* First-year, first semester freshman enrolled in Psychology 100 courses at CUNY College of Staten Island.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under 18 years old
* Violation of inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Self-Reported Depression Symptoms on the DASS-21
timeFrame: Three Months
measure: Change in Anxiety Symptoms as measured by the DASS-21
timeFrame: Three Months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in self-efficacy as measured by the Coping Self-Efficacy Scale
timeFrame: Three Months
measure: Change in Coping abilities as measured by the Brief COPE
timeFrame: Three Months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Staten Island
country: United States
facility: CUNY College of State Island
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: The Zucker Hillside Hospital
name: Timothy I Michaels, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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