IntelliCare in College Students (ICCS)

Northwestern University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Depression

Anxiety

Treatments

Behavioral: Mobile self-help intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT04035577

K08MH112878 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

K08MH112878-EUT

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is an 8-week usability and feasibility trial of the smartphone student stress-management app IntelliCare for college students. This intervention will be tested with University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) students. During this period, research surveys assessing depression and anxiety can be completed on the app. Also, user feedback interviews will be conducted viatelephone at four weeks and at eight weeks to gain insight on the user experience of IntelliCare for College Students.

Full description

In this study, students will be recruited for an 8-week trial in which they will be given the IntelliCare Hub app and encouraged to use it daily. To ensure a sample representative of likely end users, 10 students from each site will be recruited: 5 with elevated distress as measured by scores > 10 on either the PHQ-9 or GAD-7 and 5 without elevated scores on either measure, for a total of 20 participants. The rationale for 10 participants in each group is based on past usability research indicating saturation is typically reached within 10 participants. This trial aims to identify software bugs and usability problems that emerge over extended use and to examine preliminary effects of program use. During the trial, participants will be prompted to complete the PHQ-8 and GAD-7 every week. At baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks, participants will be prompted within the app to complete the Depression Literacy Questionnaire and Anxiety Literacy Questionnaire to measure mental health literacy, the Knowledge and Beliefs about Services scale to measure knowledge of campus mental health services, the Barriers to Mental Health Help-Seeking questionnaire to measure treatment barriers, and the Cognitive and Behavioral Response to Stress Scale to measure cognitive and behavioral coping skills. At 4 and 8 weeks participants will be asked to participate in a user-feedback interview via the telephone. This is to gain insight on the user's experience with the app.

Enrollment

20 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Participant is a student at the University of Illinois in Chicago or Northern Illinois University. Participant owns a smartphone capable of running Android 7 (or higher) or iOS11 (or higher).

Participant is 18 years of age or older

Exclusion criteria

None