Clinical trial NCT06348277: Brief App-based Mood Monitoring and Mindfulness Intervention for First-year College Students
Official title: Brief App-based Mood Monitoring and Mindfulness Intervention for First-year College Students
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depression, Anxiety
Self-Injurious Behavior
Keywords: mindfulness
rumination
worry
Lead sponsor: Lawrence University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-04
Enrollment: 130
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* enrolled first-year student at university

Exclusion Criteria:

* serious suicidal concerns

Primary outcomes:
measure: Depressive Symptoms
timeFrame: immediately after the intervention
measure: Anxiety Symptoms
timeFrame: immediately after the intervention
measure: Urges to Self-injure
timeFrame: immediately after the intervention
measure: Rumination
timeFrame: immediately after the intervention
measure: Worry
timeFrame: immediately after the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Depressive Symptoms
timeFrame: 6 weeks following the intervention
measure: Depressive Symptoms
timeFrame: 12 weeks following the intervention
measure: Anxiety Symptoms
timeFrame: 6 weeks following the intervention
measure: Anxiety Symptoms
timeFrame: 12 weeks following the intervention
measure: Urges to self-injure
timeFrame: 6 weeks following the intervention
measure: Urges to self-injure
timeFrame: 12 weeks following the intervention
measure: Rumination
timeFrame: 6 weeks following the intervention
measure: Rumination
timeFrame: 12 weeks following the intervention
measure: Worry
timeFrame: 6 weeks following the intervention
measure: Worry
timeFrame: 12 weeks following the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Appleton
country: United States
facility: Lawrence University
state: Wisconsin
Study officials:
affiliation: Lawrence University
name: Lori M Hilt, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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