Evaluating an Online Wellness Intervention for Indian College Students

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Happiness; Depressive Symptoms; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Common Elements Toolbox; Behavioral: Wait-list control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04592588

843879

Details and patient eligibility

About

We are evaluating the effects of an online single-session mental health intervention (the Common Elements Toolbox; COMET). To evaluate COMET, we are conducting a randomized controlled trial with Indian college students. Students will be randomized to the COMET condition or to a wait-list control condition.

Primary outcome measures (depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and subjective well-being) will be measures at two weeks post-intervention, four weeks post-intervention, and twelve weeks post-intervention.

We will evaluate COMET as a universal intervention (using the full sample) and as a targeted intervention (analyzing those who reported elevated depressive symptoms or anxiety symptoms at baseline).

Enrollment: 513 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: At least 18 years old and a student at a participating university in India.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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513 participants in 2 patient groups

Common Elements Toolbox (COMET)

Experimental group

Description:

The Common Elements Toolbox is an online intervention consisting of modules from empirically supported treatments for common mental health problems.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Common Elements Toolbox

Wait-list control condition

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wait-list control