Clinical trial NCT04944277: Assessing Effectiveness of ThoughtFullChat Application in Improving Mental Well-Being
Official title: Assessing Effectiveness of a Text-based Mental Health Coaching Application in Improving Mental Well-Being Among House Officers, IMU Faculty, IMU Corporate Staff and IMU Students in Malaysia
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anxiety
Depression
Stress
Resilience
Keywords: Mental Health Wellbeing
Text-based Mental Health Coaching Application
Lead sponsor: International Medical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: ThoughtFull World Pte. Ltd.
First posted: 2021-06-29
Enrollment: 353
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: * To determine the state of mental health among house officers, IMU corporate staff, IMU students and IMU faculty
* To find out the effectiveness and user experience of text-based mental health coaching applications among house officers, IMU corporate staff, IMU students and IMU faculty

IMU - International Medical University

Detailed description: The text-based mental health coaching application that the investigators are using is ThoughtFullChat Application. ThoughtFullChat Application provides mental health coaching through text by licensed mental health professionals. Participants of this research will be required to answer a set of questionnaires which consists of DASS-21, Satisfaction with Life Scale and Brief Resilience Scale at the start of the study. Participants will be randomly distributed into 2 groups which are intervention and control groups. Participants in the intervention group will be using the application for 3 months. Post-intervention questionnaires will be given to all participants after 3 months. Data collected from these 2 groups will be analyzed by using SPSS.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* House Officers in Malaysia (UD41)
* Corporate staff in IMU, IMU Faculty Members
* All students who are currently studying in IMU who give their consent
* Competent in English Language
* Experiencing none to severe stress, anxiety or depression based on DASS-21 score

Exclusion Criteria:

* Medical students, Medical Officers (UD44)
* Contract staff, Outsourced staff or international staff in IMU campuses
* Students who refuse to give their consent and those that have already or just graduated from IMU
* Competent in other languages except English
* Experiencing extremely severe stress, anxiety or depression based on the DASS-21 score

Primary outcomes:
measure: Anxiety
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Depression
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Stress
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Satisfaction with Life
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seremban
country: Malaysia
facility: IMU Clinical Campus
state: Negeri Sembilan
Study officials:
affiliation: International MU
name: Kean Ghee Lim, FRCS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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