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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06348277
• Other study ID #: 121119
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2, 2018
• Est. completion date: June 17, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Lawrence University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 130
• Est. completion date: June 17, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 7, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• enrolled first-year student at university

Exclusion Criteria:

• serious suicidal concerns

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression, Anxiety
• Self-Injurious Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Mindfulness plus mood monitoring
mobile app that provides guided mindfulness exercises in addition to prompting for mood monitoring three times per day
• Mood monitoring
mobile app that prompts for mood monitoring three times per day

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Lawrence University	Appleton	Wisconsin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lawrence University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Depressive Symptoms	Beck Depression Inventory; higher scores indicate greater depression	immediately after the intervention
Primary	Anxiety Symptoms	Beck Anxiety Inventory; higher scores indicate greater anxiety	immediately after the intervention
Primary	Urges to Self-injure	Alexian Brothers Urges to Self-Injure scale; higher scores indicate greater urges	immediately after the intervention
Primary	Rumination	Ruminative Response Scale; higher scores indicate higher rumination	immediately after the intervention
Primary	Worry	Penn State Worry Questionnaire; higher scores indicate greater worry	immediately after the intervention
Secondary	Depressive Symptoms	Beck Depression Inventory; higher scores indicate greater depression	6 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Depressive Symptoms	Beck Depression Inventory; higher scores indicate greater depression	12 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Anxiety Symptoms	Beck Anxiety Inventory; higher scores indicate greater anxiety	6 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Anxiety Symptoms	Beck Anxiety Inventory; higher scores indicate greater anxiety	12 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Urges to self-injure	Alexian Brothers Urges to Self-Injure scale; higher scores indicate greater urges	6 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Urges to self-injure	Alexian Brothers Urges to Self-Injure scale; higher scores indicate greater urges	12 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Rumination	Ruminative Response Scale; higher scores indicate higher rumination	6 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Rumination	Ruminative Response Scale; higher scores indicate higher rumination	12 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Worry	Penn State Worry Questionnaire; higher scores indicate greater worry	6 weeks following the intervention
Secondary	Worry	Penn State Worry Questionnaire; higher scores indicate greater worry	12 weeks following the intervention