NCT03096171

Flourishing App: An Evaluation With High School Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This protocol proposes a well-being program, delivered through an application for mobile devices, based on meditation and positive psychology principles such as human development, the improvement of virtues, quality of life and well-being. The investigators hypothesize that this program offered in mobile application may promote well-being and reduce stress related problems in the participants. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a well-being program delivered through an application for mobile devices in a sample of high school students. Methods: Sixty high school students will be recruited. The participants will be randomized in two groups of 30 participants each one, half of them in the control group (GC) and the other half to the intervention group (GI).

Detailed description

Introduction: Some very successful stress management programs are based on the principle of Mindfulness. This protocol proposes a well-being program, delivered through an application for mobile devices, based on meditation and positive psychology principles such as human development, the improvement of virtues, quality of life and well-being. In the modern world, young people are connected to new technologies and the use of applications can be a fun way to learn how to cope with stress and promote well-being. In this sense, the investigators hypothesize that this program offered in mobile application can be considered an interesting alternative for high school students who want to reduce symptoms related to stress and also promote well-being. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a well-being program delivered through an application for mobile devices in a sample of high school students. Methods: Sixty high school students will be recruited. The participants will be randomized in two groups of 30 participants each one, half of them in the control group (GC) and the other half to the intervention group (GI). The GI will participate in the Flourishing App Program, for eight weeks, while the GC will have access to a Control App. Then, after the evaluations, the GC will receive the intervention (Flourishing App Program), while the first group will repeat the use of the Flourishing App Program. Questions will be applied to evaluate the levels of stress and well-being of participants before and after the program and before and after each training period.

Conditions

• Emotional Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Flourishing App Program	This intervention is based on relaxation, well-being promotion, meditation practices and positive psychology principles. The program is being evaluated in a classroom format into another project and was adapted for this project in the application format for mobile devices. It will last for 16 weeks, with trainings of 20 minutes, four times a week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-28
• Primary completion: 2017-03-28
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2017-03-30
• Last updated: 2018-02-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil