None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This study will evaluate the impact of a personalised mental wellbeing web-app on help-seeking, mental health literacy, self-stigma, and wellbeing among Chinese international students in a randomised controlled trial. Participants are randomised to the intervention (enhanced MindYourHead app), which provides personalised symptom feedback, tailored psychoeducation on symptoms and interventions, and tailored links to external resources and local mental health services; or the attention-control arm (standard MindYourHead app) with an identical web-app design but without the personalised feedback and tailored psychoeducation. Assessments occur at baseline, 1 week post-intervention and 6 weeks follow up. It is hypothesised that participants receiving the intervention will have higher help-seeking intentions and attitudes than those in the the control group.
Interventions
There are two arms:
1. Intervention arm: enhanced MindYourHead web-app
2. Attention-control arm: standard MindYourHead web-app
Both arms are delivered entirely online. The trial is held at the study website. Participants are able to access the intervention as many times as they wish over the study period (6 weeks).
Intervention arm:
Participants complete validated mental health screening questionnaires and receive personalised symptom feedback, tailored psychoeducation on symptoms and trea
There are two arms: 1. Intervention arm: enhanced MindYourHead web-app 2. Attention-control arm: standard MindYourHead web-app Both arms are delivered entirely online. The trial is held at the study website. Participants are able to access the intervention as many times as they wish over the study period (6 weeks). Intervention arm: Participants complete validated mental health screening questionnaires and receive personalised symptom feedback, tailored psychoeducation on symptoms and treatments, and tailored links to external resources and local mental health services. This information is presented in written text. The screening questionnaires is provided across 7 categories of mental health, including: distress, sleep, stress, alcohol consumption, smoking, procrastination, and social support. Participants can decide which of the categories they wish to explore on the app. They have the autonomy to elect to complete as many or as few of the categories as they wish. Each level of feedback for each category is tailored to the participant's score for the relevant scale for that category (e.g. K-10). Participant’s scores will fall into one of two or three levels (e.g. high distress, moderate distress or low distress). Participants will receive personalised feedback immediately after completing the questionnaires based on their score level, along with three levels of information, “what does this mean?”, “what can I do?”, and “where can I find help?”. The feedback includes information about symptoms, frequency in the student population, the potential of reducing symptoms, and increasing wellbeing using psychological treatments and strategies. Participants are provided with up to four tailored links to external resources and supports. Adherence: The app automatically records number of logins, surveys completed, pages viewed, and external link clicks.
Sponsors
University of Sydney
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 40 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
International student from Chinese-speaking background, currently enrolled at an Australian university, have a valid university student email, willingness to give informed consent, and have reliable internet access.
Exclusion criteria
There are no a priori exclusion criteria.
Outcome results
None listed