Landing Place: Impact of the Landing Place Mental Health App on Mental Health and Well-being
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 160
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Well-being related to Attention and Cognitive Functioning
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if intervention with Landing Place mental health app can support wellness in college students. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Can the app increased well-being in college students? Will the app have increased use and usability by the college students? Researchers will compare two groups of participants to see if the app intervention will increase wellbeing and app usability rates.
Participants will randomly assigned into group 1 and 2. Group 1 will not use the app at all. Group 2 will use the app almost every day for 4 weeks.
详细描述
Mental health concerns across the United States have increased substantially, affecting individuals across age groups, geographic regions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Emerging adults demonstrate the highest prevalence of mental health conditions among adult populations, while simultaneously exhibiting the lowest rates of treatment utilization. Barriers to treatment for this population include limited affordability, accessibility, availability, and acceptability of mental health services.
Digital mental health interventions have demonstrated effectiveness across a range of outcomes, including symptom reduction, self-management, and well-being enhancement. Smartphone-based applications, in particular, have been evaluated as tools to integrate mental health support through scalable and accessible technologies. Such applications may offer features including guided self-help activities, mindfulness practices, journaling, mood tracking, psychoeducational content, and location-based resources for mental health services.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges among U.S. college students have intensified, with documented impacts on academic performance and overall functioning. These challenges are further exacerbated by stigma, financial constraints, and limited access to campus-based or community mental health services, particularly for students from historically marginalized backgrounds.
In response to these needs, Penn State Behrend's Virtual/Augmented Reality (VAR) Lab developed the Landing Place mental health app, a free digital intervention designed to support mental wellness among college students in the Erie region. The application was developed with an emphasis on usability, privacy, and accessibility, and is tailored to the developmental and contextual needs of young adults. Planned future iterations of the application aim to extend its use to additional populations, such as survivors of domestic violence.
The Landing Place app incorporates artificial intelligence, supported features and evidence-based therapeutic components, including mindfulness exercises, goal-setting activities, journaling, mood tracking, and educational content related to mental health and coping strategies. This clinical trial evaluates the effectiveness, usability, and acceptability of the application when used as a self-guided mental wellness intervention among college students.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Penn State Behrend students
- •Over the age of 18
- •Must have an iPhone
排除标准
- •People outside of Penn State
- •People currently in therapy
研究组 & 干预措施
Control Group
Group 1 will not use the app at all.
App-intervention group
Group 2 will use the mental health app almost every day for 4 weeks. The following activities must be completed in-app by participants in this arm:
- Cognitive exercise (2 per week)
- Mindfulness (2 per week)
- Mood tracker (4 per week)
- Chat feature (2 per week)
- Articles (3 across the 4 weeks)
- Journal (3 across the 4 weeks)
- To-do (related to the goal, once a week)
- Goals (1 goal at the beginning)
干预措施: mental health app (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Well-being related to Attention and Cognitive Functioning
时间窗: From enrollment to the end of intervention at 5 weeks
Attention-related symptoms will be assessed using the DSM-5-TR Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Measure, a self-report scale evaluating attentional functioning. Scores vary by subscale, with higher scores indicating greater symptom severity.
Well-being related to Health-related quality of life
时间窗: From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 5 weeks
Health-related quality of life will be measured using the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36). The instrument generates domain scores ranging from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better perceived health and well-being.
Well-being related to Mental Health Symptom Severity
时间窗: From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 5 weeks
Mental health symptom severity will be assessed using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales - 21 Items (DASS-21), a self-report instrument measuring symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. Scores range from 0 to 63, with higher scores indicating greater symptom severity.
Well-being related to Functional Impairment
时间窗: From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 5 weeks
Functional impairment will be evaluated using the Brief Functional Impairment Scale - Long Form (BFIS-LF), which assesses impairment across daily functioning domains. Scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating greater functional impairment.
次要结局
- Usability(From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks)
- Usage(From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 5 weeks)
- Engagement(From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 5 weeks)
研究者
Christopher Shelton
PhD
Penn State University