Tuned In University Students: An emotion regulation program using music listening.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Mental Health - Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour; Mental Health - Anxiety; Mental Health - Depression; Emotion dysregulation

• Registration Number: ACTRN12622000819729
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Queensland

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2022-06-10
• Last Update Posted: 20 June 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

Students enrolled in a first year courses at University of Queensland

Exclusion Criteria

•Currently engaged in treatment for a serious mental health issue (such as clinical depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, psychosis)
•An inability to attend all four of the program sessions
•English proficiency that is insufficient for the student to engage in the group discussions and complete the assessments (with optional support from the researchers).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emotion Regulation of Others and Self (EROS) - Intrinsic affect improving subscale[Baseline (Week 2 - 6 of semester), and post-intervention (Week 8 - 12 of semester)];Emotion Regulation of Others and Self (EROS) - Intrinsic affect worsening subscale[Baseline (Week 2 - 6 of semester), and post-intervention (Week 8 - 12 of semester)];Psycheck - emotional distress screening tool [Baseline (Week 2 - 6 of semester), and post-intervention (Week 8 - 12 of semester)]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale[Baseline (Week 2 - 6 of semester), and post-intervention (Week 8 - 12 of semester)];Use of music for emotion regulation: Participants will rate how effective they find music listening to regulate their emotions on a scale from 1 = not at all successful to 9 = extremely successful, alongside other emotion regulation strategies drawn from Thayer, Newman, and McClain (1994). [Baseline (Week 2 - 6 of semester), and post-intervention (Week 8 - 12 of semester)];Qualitative data from two survey questions, in the post survey, asking participants what they liked about the program, and what they thought could be improved. Participants respond to these questions in writing. [Post-intervention (Week 8 - 12 of semester)]