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

NCT05653908 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: REThin Academy
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 550
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Mental Health Issue

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (15)

• Rational and irrational beliefs

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

  baseline, pre-intervention

• Changes in rational and irrational beliefs

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

  immediately after the intervention

• Fluctuation in rational and irrational beliefs

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

  during the intervention

• Mental Health

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

  baseline, pre-intervention

• Changes in Mental Health

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

  immediately after the intervention

• Fluctuation in Mental Health

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

  during the intervention

• Mood disorders

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

  baseline, pre-intervention

• Changes in mood disorders

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

  Post-intervention (one week after the intervention)

• Fluctuation in mood disorders

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

  during the intervention

• Fluctuation in academic stress

  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.

  during the intervention

• Fluctuation in life experiences

  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.

  during the intervention

• Fluctuations in emotion regulation

  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.

  during the intervention

• Fluctuations in college student stress

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

  during the intervention

• Fluctuations in stress coping styles

  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.

  during the intervention

• Student adaptation to college

  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.

  during the intervention

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Trauma

  baseline, pre-intervention

• Loneliness

  baseline, pre-intervention

• Fluctuation in loneliness

  during the intervention

Study Arms (1)

Daily monitoring

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: StudentMood

Interventions

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

Daily monitoring

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• student in Babes-Bolyai University in the first year

You may not qualify if:

• incapacity of accessing the mobile app

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Babes-Bolyai University: lead
• The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Babes-Bolyai University

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor Ph.D of Clinical Psychology

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2022
• First Posted: December 16, 2022
• Study Start: October 20, 2022
• Primary Completion: August 31, 2023
• Study Completion: September 30, 2023
• Last Updated: November 1, 2024

Record last verified: 2023-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

RO (1)