NCT04349423

Daily Assessment of Mood and Social Media Behaviors Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 324 (actual)
• Sponsor: Southern Methodist University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to learn more about social media usage and its relation to emotions, biology, and mental health. Participants will complete daily assessments (5 times a day) over the course of 11 days in which they will report on their social media use, behaviors, and mood. During the first 4 days participants will be asked to continue using social media as typical. In the second half (7 days) participants will be randomized to social media usage groups (0 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hour, 3 hours). There will be mental health and well-being measures provided at the beginning and end of the study. Lastly, to better understand how social media usage effects underlying mechanisms of stress, participants will be asked to provide saliva samples for 3 nights (pre, mid, and post) to assess for basal cortisol levels.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Stress
• Depression
• Cortisol

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Social Media Usage Manipulation	Behavioral Intervention of social media usage.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-01
• Primary completion: 2021-05-01
• Completion: 2021-05-01
• First posted: 2020-04-16
• Last updated: 2022-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States