The Effectiveness of the "MINDLiNG" Digital Mental Health Intervention

40FY

Status: Completed

Conditions: Personality; Mental Health Services

Treatments: Device: "MINDLiNG" Digital Mental Health Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry; Other

Identifiers

NCT06166693

SNUH_MINDLiNG_RCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

A study in South Korea assessed the effectiveness of the "MINDLiNG" digital mental healthcare program, targeting maladaptive personality traits, and found significant improvements in reducing stress, perfectionism, loneliness, and anxiety, while increasing self-esteem among participants. The study highlights the potential of digital solutions to address the high demand for mental healthcare services in South Korea.

Full description

This study conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a digital intervention program called "MINDLiNG" designed to target maladaptive personality traits, with four subprograms addressing perfectionism, low self-esteem, social isolation, and anxiety. Participants were assigned to one of these programs, and primary outcome measures varied accordingly, including the Perceived Stress Scale, Hewitt Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, State Self-Esteem Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, and Beck Anxiety Inventory. The study anticipated treatment effects in both primary and secondary outcome measures for the treatment group compared to the waitlist group after 5 and 10 weeks of intervention.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults between the ages of 18 and 60
• Experiencing a moderate level of stress in their daily lives (PSS≥17) and meet a certain level of perfectionism (HMPS≥198), self-esteem (SSES≤57), loneliness (UCLA LS≥47), and anxiety (BAI≥16). The cutoff points for each scale are based on the top or bottom 25% of the frequency distribution suggested in the previous study.

Exclusion criteria

• In cases where there is difficulty understanding and reading Korean.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

Adults between the ages of 18 and 60 were recruited and randomly assigned to the treatment group and waitlist group in the ratio of 2:1. Based on the screening results, 75 participants were assigned to each of the four intervention programs within MINDLiNG (Riggy, Pleaser, Shelly, and Jumpy).

Treatment:

Device: "MINDLiNG" Digital Mental Health Intervention

Waitlist group

No Intervention group

Description:

Adults between the ages of 18 and 60 were recruited and randomly assigned to the treatment group and waitlist group in the ratio of 2:1. Based on the screening results, 25 participants were assigned to each of the four intervention programs waitlist.