The natural context of mental health: An exploration of the health-promoting effects of nature and daylight employing ecological momentary assessment
- Conditions
- mentaal welzijn (stress, zelf-regulatie, vitaliteit)mental healthwellbeing10037176
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON36947
- Lead Sponsor
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion criteria for the healthy group are scoring a T-score (based on the non-patient norm) lower than 60 on the depression and anxiety subscales of the SCL-90-R, scoring lower than 14 on the BDI, and not having sought professional mental health support in the past three months.
For the clinical group the criteria are scoring a T-score (based on the non-patient norm) higher than 60 on the depression or anxiety subscale of the SCL-90-R, or scoring higher than 14 on the BDI. Comorbidity is no problem.
Exclusion criteria are:
* Participation, or intended participation in the *emotionele veerkracht bij depressie* study, currently running at GGzE (also an experience sampling study).
* Having sought professional mental help while not scoring a T-score (based on the non-patient norm) higher than 60 on the depression or anxiety subscale of the SCL-90-R, or scoring higher than 14 on the BDI.
* Active psychoticism, indicated by T-score (based on the psychiatric patient norm) higher than 70 on the psychoticism scale of the SCL-90-R,
* Suicidal ideation, indicated by a BDI score of 41 or higher, a score of 2 or higher on item 9 of the BDI, or a SCL-90-R depression T-score (psychiatric patient norm) over 70.
* Scoring higher than 6 on the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>The main research question is whether naturalness and amount of daylight in the<br /><br>environment can influence reported mood and whether naturalness and amount of<br /><br>daylight in the environment can influence number of self-control lapses.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>not applicable</p><br>