Undergraduate and graduate students who met the criteria of high worry and social dysfuntion
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: 2 session intervention for metacognitive beliefs, attention control, executive processing, and attentional strategies which is based on metacognitive therapy
Group 2: 2 session intervention f
Sponsors
Waseda university
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: -Undergraduate and graduate students who belong to Japanese university -Penn State Worry Questionnaire over 56points -Sheehan Disability Scale over 7points
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: -Has difficulty of reading and writing Japanese -Who experienced psychiatric or psychosomatic treatment, including medication, psychotherapy, or psychological counseling in past or current -Has a history of heart disease or diabetes -Smoking habit on a daily basis.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| At Post point (i.e., end of intervention) and Follow-up point which is 3 months later of Post point: (1) Sheehan Disability Scale, (2) Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, (3) Patient Health Questionnaire-9 | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| -(1) percentage of Sheehan Disability Scale under 6points, (2) percentage of Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) under 47points, (3) percentage of 7point decrease and PSWQ over 48points -Ecological Momentary Assessment-social function items change between Baseline (3 days before intervention start) to Post (3 days later of the end of intervention term) | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactMinori Machida
Waseda University Graduate School of Human Sciences
Outcome results
None listed