IntelliCare in College Students - Implementation (ICCS-I)
- Conditions
- AnxietyDepression
- Interventions
- Behavioral: IntelliCare for College Students
- Registration Number
- NCT04108429
- Lead Sponsor
- Northwestern University
- Brief Summary
This study is a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the smartphone student stress-management app IntelliCare for college students. This intervention will be tested with University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) students. During the study, participants will complete measures of depressive and anxious symptoms, as well as measures of mental health literacy, within the app.
- Detailed Description
In this study, students will be recruited to use the IntelliCare Hub app and encouraged to use it daily.The overall aim of this study is to pilot the program, evaluation metrics, implementation strategies, data collection and assessment procedures for a larger implementation trial. During the trial, participants will be prompted to complete the PHQ-8 and GAD-7 every week. At monthly intervals, participants will be prompted within the app to complete the Depression Literacy Questionnaire and Anxiety Literacy Questionnaire to measure mental health literacy, the Knowledge and Beliefs about Services scale to measure knowledge of campus mental health services, the Barriers to Mental Health Help-Seeking questionnaire to measure treatment barriers, and the Cognitive and Behavioral Response to Stress Scale to measure cognitive and behavioral coping skills. Counseling center utilization data will be extracted from the participating counseling centers' electronic medical records.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 117
- Participant is a student at the University of Illinois in Chicago or Northern Illinois University. *Participant owns a smartphone capable of running Android 7 (or higher) or iOS11 (or higher).
- Participant is 18 years of age or older
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Mobile self-help intervention IntelliCare for College Students Participants will have open access to the IntelliCare system.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9) - Depression Severity Module Weekly symptom reports at Weeks 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 The PHQ-9 measures degree of depression severity. Possible range of scores for the PHQ-9 is 0-27. Higher values represent a worse outcome.
Specifically, scores of 0-4 indicate minimal or no depression; 5-9 is mild; 10-14 is moderate; 15-19 is moderately severe; and 20-27 is severeAverage Number of Days of App Usage Days of app use through study completion, up to 10 months The mean number of days the app was used was drawn from the study app over the course of the study
Counseling Center Utilization Data (e.g. Counts of Individual Counseling Appointments) Biweekly session utilization from August 1, 2018 (start of pre-implementation data collection; prior to the implementation trial) to December 18, 2020 (end of implementation period) Counseling session utilization data were examined on a biweekly basis to determine if the introduction of the IntelliCare for College Students program impacts counseling center utilization. Counts of types of sessions (e.g. intake appointments, individual counseling appointments, crisis appointments) attended by students were examined over time to look at potential changes. These data were collected from the university in aggregate, thus, there are not participant-level data.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale - 7 (GAD-7) Weekly symptom reports at Weeks 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 The GAD-7 is a self-administered 7 item instrument that uses some of the DSM-V criteria for GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) to identify probable cases of GAD along with measuring anxiety symptom severity. GAD-7 total score for the seven items ranges from 0 to 21. Higher values represent a worse outcome. Specifically, scores of 1-4 indicate minimal anxiety symptoms; 5-9 is mild anxiety symptoms; 10-14 is moderate anxiety symptoms; and 15-21 is severe anxiety symptoms.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Depression Literacy Questionnaire Monthly questionnaire scores at baseline, one month and two months This is a measure of mental health literacy, specifically about symptoms of depression. Participants respond "True" or "False" to statements about depression and the correct responses are tallied to create total score. The range of scores is 0-22 with higher scores indicating greater literacy.
Anxiety Literacy Questionnaire Monthly questionnaire scores at baseline, one month and two months This is a measure of mental health literacy, specifically about symptoms of anxiety. Participants respond "True" or "False" to statements about anxiety and the correct responses are tallied to create total score. The range of score is range of scores is 0-22 with higher scores indicating greater literacy.
Cognitive and Behavioral Response to Stress Scale (CB-RSS) Monthly questionnaire scores at baseline, one month and two months The CB-RSS is a 9 item measure of the frequency and perceived helpfulness of cognitive and behavioral coping skills. There are 4 subscales representing "Cognitive frequency" "Cognitive helpfulness" "Behavioral frequency" and "Behavioral helpfulness." Participants respond to the frequency items on a scale of 0 = Never to 6 = Always and to the helpfulness items on a scale of 0 = Not at all helpful to 6 = Extremely helpful. The scores range from 0-24 on the Cognitive subscales and from 0-30 on the Behavioral subscales. Higher values represent a better outcome.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Northwestern University
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States