Flourishing App: An Evaluation With High School Students

NCT03096171 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: HIAE_App Florescer_Alunos
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This protocol proposes a well-being program, delivered through an application for mobile devices, based on meditation and positive psychology principles such as human development, the improvement of virtues, quality of life and well-being. The investigators hypothesize that this program offered in mobile application may promote well-being and reduce stress related problems in the participants. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a well-being program delivered through an application for mobile devices in a sample of high school students. Methods: Sixty high school students will be recruited. The participants will be randomized in two groups of 30 participants each one, half of them in the control group (GC) and the other half to the intervention group (GI).

Conditions

Emotional Stress

Keywords

Stress; Well-being; Positive Psychology

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Changes in subjective symptoms of stress in the last 30 days

  Sliding scale for stress level from 0 to 100

  baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks and 16 weeks

• Changes in subjective symptoms of well-being in the last 30 days

  Sliding scale for well-being level from 0 to 100

  baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks and 16 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Changes in subjective symptoms of stress at the moment

  four times a week, before and after the period of each class (20 min)

• Changes in subjective symptoms of well-being at the moment

  four times a week, before and after the period of each class (20 min)

Study Arms (2)

Control App

NO INTERVENTION

Initially this control group will have access to a Control App and after 8 weeks this goup will receive the intervention (Flourishing App Program).

Flourishing App Program

EXPERIMENTAL

This group will receive the intervention Flourishing App Program for 16 weeks.

Behavioral: Flourishing App Program

Interventions

Flourishing App Program BEHAVIORAL

This intervention is based on relaxation, well-being promotion, meditation practices and positive psychology principles. The program is being evaluated in a classroom format into another project and was adapted for this project in the application format for mobile devices. It will last for 16 weeks, with trainings of 20 minutes, four times a week.

Flourishing App Program

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 14 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Complete elementary school

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

São Paulo, 05652901, Brazil

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stress, Psychological

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD

Model Details: Behavioral: Flourishing App Program This intervention is based on relaxation, well-being promotion, meditation practices and positive psychology principles. The program is being evaluated in a classroom format into another project and was adapted for this project in the application format for mobile devices. It will last for 16 weeks, with trainings of 20 minutes, four times a week. No Intervention: Control App This group will observe their psychological and physical condition (levels of stress and well-being) during their daily activities and social interactions for 8 weeks. After the evaluations, this group will receive the intervention (Flourishing App Program) for more 8 weeks.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 24, 2017
• First Posted: March 30, 2017
• Study Start: March 28, 2016
• Primary Completion: March 28, 2017
• Study Completion: December 31, 2017
• Last Updated: February 22, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

BR (1)