NCT06348277

Brief App-based Mood Monitoring and Mindfulness Intervention for First-year College Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (actual)
• Sponsor: Lawrence University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Depression, Anxiety
• Self-Injurious Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness plus mood monitoring	mobile app that provides guided mindfulness exercises in addition to prompting for mood monitoring three times per day
BEHAVIORAL	Mood monitoring	mobile app that prompts for mood monitoring three times per day

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-02
• Primary completion: 2020-04-07
• Completion: 2020-06-17
• First posted: 2024-04-04
• Last updated: 2024-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States