Improving College Students' Mental Help-Seeking Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 926
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Help-Seeking Behavior
研究概览
简要总结
This study aimed at testing the effectiveness of a longitudinal intervention in increasing college students' intention to seek mental help during the pandemic.
详细描述
This study aimed at testing the effectiveness of a longitudinal intervention in increasing college students' intention to seek mental help during the pandemic.
A four-armed randomized controlled experiment was conducted to compare two self-persuasion methods against two control conditions. Assessments took place at baseline (T0), post-first treatment (T1), post-second treatment (six weeks, T2), and ten-week follow-up (T3).
The results showed that the intervention significantly increased students' help-seeking intention, attitude, and efficacy at different time points. It also reduced mental help-seeking-related stigma after the first task.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 100 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •18 years old or older
- •Full-time undergraduate students
- •Had more than a moderate amount of mental distress
排除标准
- •Under 18 years old
- •Not full-time undergraduate students
- •Had less than a moderate amount of mental distress
研究组 & 干预措施
Facebook Control Group
Participants in this group were assigned a Facebook task advocating social distancing during a pandemic. The question prompts were modified from the tasks for the experimental groups.
干预措施: Mental help-seeking self-persuasion (Behavioral)
YouTube Intervention
Participants assigned to this task were asked to search YouTube for a 5-10 minutes' video promoting mental help-seeking among college students. Then, they were expected to provide the link to the video and describe the content of the video. Next, participants were guided to form rebuttals disapproving three statements that rationalize students' low intention to seek mental help.
干预措施: Mental help-seeking self-persuasion (Behavioral)
Facebook Intervention
This task was to draft a Facebook message for the participants' fellow students. In their message, participants were expected to list three reasons for seeking mental help. The length of the message was not pre-determined.
干预措施: Mental help-seeking self-persuasion (Behavioral)
YouTube Control Group
Participants in this group were assigned a YouTube task advocating social distancing during a pandemic. The question prompts were modified from the tasks for the experimental groups.
干预措施: Mental help-seeking self-persuasion (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Help-Seeking Behavior
时间窗: 10 weeks
Help-Seeking Behavior was measured by a validated item modified from previous research based on the transtheoretical model (Sarkin et al., 2001). The item asked about if a participant has sought mental help from a health care professional. Answers to this item included "1 = not intending to seek help in the next six months," "2 = intending to seek help in the next six months," "3 = planning to seek help in the next 30 days," "4 = have already sought help but for less than six months," and "5 = have been under treatment for more than six months."
Help-Seeking Intention
时间窗: 10 weeks
Help-Seeking Intention was measured by one item created based on recommendations by Ajzen (2002). Measured on a 5-point scale (1 = extremely unlikely, 5 = extremely likely), this item asked, "If you have a personal-emotional problem, how likely is it that you would seek help from a mental health professional (a psychologist, psychologist, or psychotherapist)?" Higher scores on this item suggest higher intentions to seek professional mental help.
次要结局
- Self-stigma of seeking mental help(10/2020 - 1/10 weeks)
- Mental help-seeking attitudes(10 weeks)
- Mental help-seeking efficacy(10 weeks)
研究者
Qiwei Luna Wu
Assistant Professor
Cleveland State University