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NCT Number: NCT05653908

REThinkAcademy: Helping Universities to Effectively Care for the Mental Health of College Students in the Digital Age

The project aims at monitoring mental health and its mechanism in the student population using a longitudinal design and ecological momentary assessment procedure throughout the first semester of college.

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Key information

Conditions

Mental Health Issue

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Babes-Bolyai University

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • student in Babes-Bolyai University in the first year

Exclusion criteria

  • incapacity of accessing the mobile app

Treatment and study plan

StudentMood

Other

StudentMood is an app that uses ecological momentary assessment method to asses mood and other mental health corelates. Participants will have to complete the application (the mood wheel, heart rate and other behavioral data as well as standardized scales) daily throughout the entire semester

Primary outcomes

  1. Rational and irrational beliefs

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)

  2. Changes in rational and irrational beliefs

    Time frame: immediately after the intervention

    Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)

  3. Fluctuation in rational and irrational beliefs

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)

  4. Mental Health

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg &Williams, 1988)

  5. Changes in Mental Health

    Time frame: immediately after the intervention

    Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg &Williams, 1988)

  6. Fluctuation in Mental Health

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg &Williams, 1988)

  7. Mood disorders

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    DASS Parkitny, L., & McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204.

  8. Changes in mood disorders

    Time frame: Post-intervention (one week after the intervention)

    DASS Parkitny, L., & McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204.

  9. Fluctuation in mood disorders

    Time frame: during the intervention

    DASS Parkitny, L., & McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204.

  10. Fluctuation in academic stress

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Lin, Y. M., & Chen, F. S. (2009). Academic stress inventory of students at universities and colleges of technology. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 7(2), 157-162.

  11. Fluctuation in life experiences

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Kohn, P. M., Lafreniere, K., & Gurevich, M. (1990). The inventory of college students' recent life experiences: A decontaminated hassles scale for a special population. Journal of behavioral medicine, 13(6), 619-630.

  12. Fluctuations in emotion regulation

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Garnefski, Nadia, and Vivian Kraaij. "Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire-development of a short 18-item version (CERQ-short)." Personality and individual differences 41.6 (2006): 1045-1053.

  13. Fluctuations in college student stress

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Feldt, R. C. (2008). Development of a brief measure of college stress: The college student stress scale. Psychological reports, 102(3), 855-860.

  14. Fluctuations in stress coping styles

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Lin, Y. M., & Chen, F. S. (2010). A stress coping style inventory of students at universities and colleges of technology. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 8(1), 67-72.

  15. Student adaptation to college

    Time frame: during the intervention

    College Adaptation Questionaire is a scale ) to assess how well students have adjusted to university life, is a self-report instrument consisting of 18 statements. Respondents indicate on a seven-point rating scale how well each statement applies Van Rooijen, L. (1986). Advanced students' adaptation to college. Higher Education, 15(3), 197-209.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Trauma

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Childhood Trauma Screener Witt, A., Öz, Y., Sachser, C. et al. Validation and standardization of the Childhood Trauma Screener (CTS) in the general population. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 16, 73 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00506-6

  2. Loneliness

    Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention

    Snape, D., & Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics.

  3. Fluctuation in loneliness

    Time frame: during the intervention

    Snape, D., & Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Babes-Bolyai University

Other

Collaborators

  • The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Dec 16, 2022
Registry last updated
Nov 1, 2024

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