Mood Lifters Online for Graduate Students and Young Professionals

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Illness; Depression; Mood Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Mood Lifters

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05078450

HUM00163570

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mood Lifters is a revolutionary mental wellness program that teaches scientifically validated strategies in a supportive group setting. This study will test two new versions of the program designed specifically for graduate students and young professionals.

Participants will need to attend 12 hour long virtual weekly meetings on Zoom that focus on helpful mental health strategies and skills. Participants will be encourage to practice what the participants learn at home in order to improve their mood or mental wellness. Additionally, participants will complete a series of measures (approx. 1-1.5 hours) prior to, at the end of the program, 1 month after the program and 6 months after the program.

Enrollment: 362 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22 to 32 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants ages 22-32 (must identify as either a graduate student or a young professional)

Exclusion criteria

• Active suicidality, mania, or psychosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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362 participants in 3 patient groups

Graduate Student Program

Experimental group

Description:

This is the graduate student version of the program. The original program has been tailored to this population to meet its specific needs and address its specific concerns.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mood Lifters

Young Professional Program

Experimental group

Description:

This is the young professional version of the program. The original program has been tailored to this population to meet its specific needs and address its specific concerns.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mood Lifters

Waitlist

No Intervention group

Description:

This is the waitlist. Participants may be randomly assigned here first. After the typical period fo the intervention on the waitlist (12 weeks), these participants will be invited to join the arm which they are most appropriate for (i.e., graduate student or young professional).