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

Depression, Anxiety Clinical Trial

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

Status Completed

Clinical Trial 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.

Clinical Trial 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. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression, Anxiety
• Self-Injurious Behavior

• NCT number: NCT06348277
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Lawrence University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2, 2018
• Completion date: June 17, 2020