The Increasing Mindfulness Engagement Project

NCT07170202 | Recruiting

• 2 other identifiers: STUDY000047685K23AA030602
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of different types of text messages and a integrated gaming app to increase engagement in a mindfulness mobile health application.

1. 1.Does receiving text messages increase engagement in a mindfulness app?
2. 2.Does an integrated gaming app increase engagement in a mindfulness app?
3. 3.Use a mindfulness and gaming mobile health application for 28-days.
4. 4.Complete a pre-study survey, post-study survey, follow-up interview, and 3-month follow-up survey in addition to daily brief surveys.

Conditions

Healthy Participants; Feasibility Studies; Acceptability

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Mobile Health Engagement

  We will assess engagement in our mindfulness mobile health application by measuring paradata (i.e., time spent in the app, whether or not the app was opened, which content was viewed in the app).

  1 month

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change in Alcohol Use

  Baseline; 1 month; 3 months

• Change in Stress

  Baseline; 1 month; 3 months

Study Arms (3)

Reciprocity

OTHER

Reciprocity text messages include giving participants a message with an solicited reward (e.g., credits in gaming app, $1).

Other: Mindfulness Smartphone Application

Episodic Future Thinking

OTHER

Episodic Future Thinking text messages include giving participants a message that encourages them to think vividly about their future

Other: Mindfulness Smartphone Application

No text message

OTHER

Participants receive no text message in this arm

Other: Mindfulness Smartphone Application

Interventions

Mindfulness Smartphone Application OTHER

A mindfulness mobile health smartphone application that has mindfulness information and practice videos.

Episodic Future Thinking; No text message; Reciprocity

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 29 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• US-born
• Black
• biological man
• undergraduate college student
• criteria for binge drinking (5 drinks in about 2 hours) or heavy drinking (more than 14 drinks per week).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Florida State University: lead
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Florida State University Center for Translational Behavioral Science

Tallahassee, Florida, 32305, United States

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Laura Reid Marks, PhD

  Florida State University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Laura Reid Marks, PhD

CONTACT

(850)644-2334; laura.reidmarks@med.fsu.edu

FSU CTBS

CONTACT

850-644-2234; ctbscience@med.fsu.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: The study is a pilot micro-randomized trial where participants are micro-randomized daily in a 28-day trial to receive different types of messages (episodic-future thinking, reciprocity, or no text message) and enticed by a gaming app to examine the feasibility and acceptability of these strategies to engage participants in a mindfulness mobile health application.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 5, 2025
• First Posted: September 12, 2025
• Study Start: September 30, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2027
• Last Updated: October 6, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-10

Locations

US (1)