REThinkAcademy: Helping Universities to Effectively Care for the Mental Health of College Students in the Digital Age

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Health Issue
• Interventions: Other: StudentMood

• Registration Number: NCT05653908
• Lead Sponsor: Babes-Bolyai University

Brief Summary

The project aims at monitoring mental health and its mechanism in the student population using a longitudinal design and ecological momentary assessment procedure throughout the first semester of college.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-10-20
• Study First Submitted: 2022-11-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-12-07
• Study First Posted: 2022-12-16
• Primary Completion: 2023-08-31
• Study Completion: 2023-09-30
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-30
• Last Update Posted: 2024-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 550

Inclusion Criteria

• student in Babes-Bolyai University in the first year

Exclusion Criteria

• incapacity of accessing the mobile app

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Daily monitoring	StudentMood	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Fluctuation in Mental Health	during the intervention	Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg \&Williams, 1988)
Mood disorders	baseline, pre-intervention	DASS Parkitny, L., \& McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204.
Changes in mood disorders	Post-intervention (one week after the intervention)	DASS Parkitny, L., \& McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204.
Fluctuation in mood disorders	during the intervention	DASS Parkitny, L., \& McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204.
Fluctuation in academic stress	during the intervention	Lin, Y. M., \& Chen, F. S. (2009). Academic stress inventory of students at universities and colleges of technology. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 7(2), 157-162.
Fluctuation in life experiences	during the intervention	Kohn, P. M., Lafreniere, K., \& Gurevich, M. (1990). The inventory of college students' recent life experiences: A decontaminated hassles scale for a special population. Journal of behavioral medicine, 13(6), 619-630.
Fluctuations in emotion regulation	during the intervention	Garnefski, Nadia, and Vivian Kraaij. "Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire-development of a short 18-item version (CERQ-short)." Personality and individual differences 41.6 (2006): 1045-1053.
Fluctuations in college student stress	during the intervention	Feldt, R. C. (2008). Development of a brief measure of college stress: The college student stress scale. Psychological reports, 102(3), 855-860.
Fluctuations in stress coping styles	during the intervention	Lin, Y. M., \& Chen, F. S. (2010). A stress coping style inventory of students at universities and colleges of technology. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 8(1), 67-72.
Student adaptation to college	during the intervention	College Adaptation Questionaire is a scale ) to assess how well students have adjusted to university life, is a self-report instrument consisting of 18 statements. Respondents indicate on a seven-point rating scale how well each statement applies Van Rooijen, L. (1986). Advanced students' adaptation to college. Higher Education, 15(3), 197-209.
Fluctuation in rational and irrational beliefs	during the intervention	Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)
Mental Health	baseline, pre-intervention	Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg \&Williams, 1988)
Changes in Mental Health	immediately after the intervention	Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg \&Williams, 1988)
Changes in rational and irrational beliefs	immediately after the intervention	Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)
Rational and irrational beliefs	baseline, pre-intervention	Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Trauma	baseline, pre-intervention	Childhood Trauma Screener Witt, A., Öz, Y., Sachser, C. et al. Validation and standardization of the Childhood Trauma Screener (CTS) in the general population. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 16, 73 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00506-6
Loneliness	baseline, pre-intervention	Snape, D., \& Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics.
Fluctuation in loneliness	during the intervention	Snape, D., \& Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Babes-Bolyai University; 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca, Romania