NCT05518656

Effects and Mechanisms of Smartphone-Based Stress Management Training on Well-Being in College Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 154 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Studying can be a difficult time, and some students can find it challenging to deal with stress. This research project at Virginia Commonwealth University aims to understand how two different online stress management training programs affect students' daily experiences and activities. This research project will help us understand how those training programs help students to improve their emotional well-being.

Detailed description

Participants will be randomly assigned (like the flip of a coin) to one of the two online stress management training programs. For two weeks, participants will receive daily online lessons that will teach you how to deal with stress. To investigate how this program affects mood, researchers will monitor participant's daily activities and experiences combining brief daily surveys with activity tracking via smartphones. The activities and experiences will be tracked for a week before the training, two weeks of the training, and one week after. Shortly after the training, researchers will also reach out to participants for a phone interview where they will ask about the training experience in more detail. Afterwards, researchers will check in with participants at the end of the semester for one more week of experience and activity tracking.

Conditions

• Emotion Regulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental intervention	Daily lessons received by email to be completed the same day
BEHAVIORAL	Comparison intervention	Daily lessons receive by email to be completed the same day

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-15
• Primary completion: 2024-04-23
• Completion: 2024-04-23
• First posted: 2022-08-26
• Last updated: 2024-07-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States