Stress Clinical Trial
Official title:
Calm College: A Brief Mobile App Meditation Intervention Among Stressed College Students
This research investigated the effects of a mindfulness meditation mobile application (i.e., Calm College) on reducing stress in undergraduate college students with moderate, high, or extreme levels of stress as compared to a delayed intervention group.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a mindfulness meditation mobile
application (i.e., Calm College) on reducing stress in ASU undergraduate students with
moderate, high, or extreme levels of stress as compared to a delayed response group.
The study design is a randomized control trial with baseline, post-intervention (8 wks from
baseline), and follow-up (12 wks from baseline) assessments. College students will be
randomized to either a Calm College Intervention group or a delayed response group.
Participants will be randomized after the completion of baseline and informed consent.
Aim 1: Investigate the effects of an 8-wk mobile meditation application (i.e., Calm) to
reduce self-reported stress in ASU undergraduate students with moderate, high or extreme
levels of stress as compared to a wait-list control group.
Aim 2: Explore the relationship between stress and reported health risk behaviors (i.e.,
inadequate sleep, physical inactivity, dietary behaviors, and alcohol consumption) in college
students who use a mobile meditation application (i.e, Calm).
Recruitment: Participants will be recruited during September 2017. Interested participants
will be directed to a Qualtrics link to complete an online eligibility screener. The screener
will take approximately 10 minutes to complete (See Eligibility Survey). The survey will be
free, voluntary, and available online. Participants will be allowed to skip questions in the
survey.
Eligibility: Once eligibility is determined, participants will be sent an informed consent
and baseline questionnaire via a Qualtrics link. This measure should take approximately 20
minutes to complete (See Informed Consent and Baseline Questionnaire). Once Informed Consent
is signed and the Baseline Questionnaire is complete, participants will be randomized via an
online randomizer (i.e., randomizer.com) to either a delayed response group or Calm College
group. Ineligible participants will be sent an email notifying their status and given
information on how to download Calm College (See Participant Scripts).
Enrollment: The Research Team will email the intervention participants that will include
instructions to download Calm College (Participant Scripts). The control participants will be
emailed and asked to not participate in any mindfulness based activities for 12-wks (See
Participant Scrips). The intervention will run for 8-wks with a 4-wk follow-up period.
Intervention participants will complete "7 days of Calm" during Week 1. For the remaining
weeks (Week 2- Week 8) intervention participants will then be asked to meditate during the
weekday from a 10-minute meditation of their choice. Throughout the intervention, the Calm
College group will be sent reminder texts/emails via Google Voice to participate in the
meditation sessions if participants are not meditating for more than 30 minutes a week (see
Participant Scripts).
Tracking: Participation in the Calm College meditations will be tracked (meditation name,
time of day, and time spent in meditation) by the Calm team.
Post-intervention: Post-intervention questionnaire will be emailed to intervention and
control participants via a link from Qualtrics (See Post-intervention questionnaire delayed
response, post-intervention questionnaire intervention). Intervention participants will have
access to Calm College, but will not be asked to meditate.
Follow-up: Follow-up questionnaire will be emailed to intervention and control participants
via a link from Qualtrics (See Follow-up questionnaire). Once follow-up measures have been
completed, the control group will be emailed instructions on how to download Calm College.
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