NCT05451706

Improving College Students' Mental Help-Seeking Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 926 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cleveland State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aimed at testing the effectiveness of a longitudinal intervention in increasing college students' intention to seek mental help during the pandemic.

Detailed description

This study aimed at testing the effectiveness of a longitudinal intervention in increasing college students' intention to seek mental help during the pandemic. A four-armed randomized controlled experiment was conducted to compare two self-persuasion methods against two control conditions. Assessments took place at baseline (T0), post-first treatment (T1), post-second treatment (six weeks, T2), and ten-week follow-up (T3). The results showed that the intervention significantly increased students' help-seeking intention, attitude, and efficacy at different time points. It also reduced mental help-seeking-related stigma after the first task.

Conditions

• Help-Seeking Behavior
• Mental Health Issue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mental help-seeking self-persuasion	Employing a longitudinal design, this study used a self-persuasion framework in a 4-arm intervention to increase college students' help-seeking intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-01
• Primary completion: 2021-01-30
• Completion: 2021-01-31
• First posted: 2022-07-11
• Last updated: 2024-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States