Using a Mobile App to Address Student Loneliness Among College Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 221
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Condition differences in self-reported loneliness
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this trial is to assess the effects of a positive psychology and CBT-based skills intervention-delivered through a mobile app called Nod-on loneliness and other mental health and institutional satisfaction outcomes. The primary outcome is self-reported loneliness at 2 and 4-weeks post baseline.
详细描述
This study is a pilot eight-week randomized controlled intervention. It employs a "waitlist" control strategy for the first 4 weeks of the study (considered to be the active study period).
Randomization will be to one of two conditions:
- Experimental group: Immediate access to the Nod app
- Waitlist control group: Participants will be granted access to the app four weeks after the experimental group
Assessments will occur at baseline, 2, 4, and 8 weeks follow up. Assessments will include measures of loneliness, and other mental health and institutional satisfaction measures listed in the secondary outcome measures section.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 25 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Incoming college first years
- •Live away from home without parents/guardians upon beginning college
- •Read English
- •Between 18 and 25 years of age
- •Own a smartphone
排除标准
- •Do not read English
- •Under 18 years of age
- •Over 25 years of age
- •Do not own a smartphone
研究组 & 干预措施
Experimental-Immediate Access to the Nod app
The experimental group will have immediate access to all content in the Nod app and will be free to engage with it as much or as little as they like for four weeks. They will retain access to the Nod app for an additional four weeks.
干预措施: Loneliness Intervention (Behavioral)
Waitlist Control-Delayed Access to the Nod app
The waitlist control group will have full access to the Nod app approximately four weeks after the experimental group gains access.
干预措施: Loneliness Intervention (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Condition differences in self-reported loneliness
时间窗: 4-weeks post baseline
Total score on the UCLA-8. Scores range from 8-32, higher scores indicate worse depression.
Condition differences in self-reported loneliness
时间窗: 2-weeks post baseline
Total score on the UCLA-8. Scores range from 8-32, higher scores indicate worse depression.
次要结局
- Depressive symptoms(2 and 4 weeks post baseline)
- Social Anxiety(2 and 4 weeks post baseline)
- Self-reported intention to remain enrolled at the University of Oregon in the next academic year(2 and 4 weeks post baseline)
- Anxiety(2 and 4 weeks post baseline)