Clinical trial NCT06140498: Feasibility of a Self-Efficacy Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMA) App
Official title: Feasibility of a Self-Efficacy Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMA) App
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Self Efficacy
Lead sponsor: The New School
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Zurich
First posted: 2023-11-20
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 61
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Random Allocation, 2 Arms allocation to groups blinded, parallel assignment, masking participant, outcome assessor, investigator.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This "SeApp" study aims to test a self-efficacy Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI) in healthy students in the context of COVID-19. EMIs are mostly smartphone-based applications that deliver interventions to people while being engaged in their daily life activities. The app harnesses the power of self-efficacy autobiographical memories (e.g. problem-solving memories, memories of success).

Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) are also incorporated into the study to capture individuals' feelings, affect, and behavior in real time.

Detailed description: This "SeApp" study aims to test a self-efficacy Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI) in healthy students in the context of COVID-19. EMIs are mostly smartphone-based applications that deliver interventions to people while being engaged in their daily life activities. The app harnesses the power of self-efficacy autobiographical memories (e.g. problem-solving memories, memories of success).

Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) are also incorporated into the study to capture individuals' feelings, affect, and behavior in real time.

Developed by psychologist Dr. Albert Bandura in 1977, the concept of self-efficacy refers to an individual's belief in their ability to perform the necessary actions to manage particular situations. Bandura's theory highlights four major components of self-efficacy, including mastery experiences, socialmodeling, social persuasion, and psychological responses. The app tested here focuses on mastery experiences, which are what individuals gain when they take on a challenge and succeed. The app prompts participants in the daily recall of self-efficacy memories. The project aims to test its feasibility and to investigate how daily self-efficacy and motivation can be enhanced and perceived stress reduced by daily memory-based training via smartphone app.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Value on Perceived Stress Scale ≥ 13
2. Student
3. Owner of a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Psychiatric history

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Primary outcomes:
measure: General Self-Efficacy
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Perceived Stress
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
measure: Intolerance of Uncertainty
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
measure: State and Trait Anxiety
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
measure: Positive and Negative Affect positive and negative affect
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
measure: Hopelessness
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
measure: Depression
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
Other outcomes:
measure: Ecological Momentary Assessment
timeFrame: through app participation (1 week)
measure: Hope
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
measure: Satisfaction with Mobile Application
timeFrame: single time point: immediately after the intervention
measure: Coronavirus Anxiety Scale
timeFrame: after app completion and 1 month after app completion
measure: Self-efficacy memories
timeFrame: single time point: baseline
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: The New School
state: New York
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