Facebook and Mental Wellbeing: A crossover randomised controlled study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental wellbeing; Mental Health - Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour

• Registration Number: ACTRN12614000959673
• Lead Sponsor: Achim Wolf

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-09-09
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 78

Inclusion Criteria

Full-time students at the University of Oxford and regular Facebook users. Regular Facebook users were defined as those that agreed they were a daily Facebook user.

Exclusion Criteria

None.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Differences in Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale scores between intervention and control period, using paired t-test.[Comparing scores at 2 and 4 weeks.]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stratification of primary outcome by gender and relationship status[Comparing scores at 2 and 4 weeks.];Differences in Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale scores using incomplete data using regression analysis and Stata’s clustered sandwich estimator (vce(cluster) function)[Comparing scores at 2 and 4 weeks.]