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

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Lawrence University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Depression, Anxiety
Self-Injurious Behavior

Treatments

Behavioral: Mindfulness plus mood monitoring
Behavioral: Mood monitoring

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment

130 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • enrolled first-year student at university

Exclusion criteria

  • serious suicidal concerns

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

130 participants in 3 patient groups

MIndfulness Plus Mood Monitoring
Experimental group
Description:
Mobile app that involved mood monitoring and brief mindfulness exercises.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Mindfulness plus mood monitoring
Mood Monitoring Only
Active Comparator group
Description:
Mobile app that involved only mood monitoring
Treatment:
Behavioral: Mood monitoring
Assessment only Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Only completed assessments

Trial contacts and locations

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