Assessing Effectiveness of ThoughtFullChat Application in Improving Mental Well-Being

International Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Resilience; Depression; Anxiety; Stress

Treatments: Other: ThoughtFullChat Application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04944277

CSc/Sem6(03)2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

• To determine the state of mental health among house officers, IMU corporate staff, IMU students and IMU faculty
• To find out the effectiveness and user experience of text-based mental health coaching applications among house officers, IMU corporate staff, IMU students and IMU faculty

IMU - International Medical University

Full description

The text-based mental health coaching application that the investigators are using is ThoughtFullChat Application. ThoughtFullChat Application provides mental health coaching through text by licensed mental health professionals. Participants of this research will be required to answer a set of questionnaires which consists of DASS-21, Satisfaction with Life Scale and Brief Resilience Scale at the start of the study. Participants will be randomly distributed into 2 groups which are intervention and control groups. Participants in the intervention group will be using the application for 3 months. Post-intervention questionnaires will be given to all participants after 3 months. Data collected from these 2 groups will be analyzed by using SPSS.

Enrollment: 353 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• House Officers in Malaysia (UD41)
• Corporate staff in IMU, IMU Faculty Members
• All students who are currently studying in IMU who give their consent
• Competent in English Language
• Experiencing none to severe stress, anxiety or depression based on DASS-21 score

Exclusion criteria

• Medical students, Medical Officers (UD44)
• Contract staff, Outsourced staff or international staff in IMU campuses
• Students who refuse to give their consent and those that have already or just graduated from IMU
• Competent in other languages except English
• Experiencing extremely severe stress, anxiety or depression based on the DASS-21 score

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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353 participants in 2 patient groups

Without ThoughtFullChat Application

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will not use the app during the 3 months

With ThoughtFullChat Application

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be using the app during the 3 months

Treatment:

Other: ThoughtFullChat Application