Mental Health Issue
Conditions
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.
Interventions
OTHERStudentMood
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
Sponsors
The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding
Babes-Bolyai University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* student in Babes-Bolyai University in the first year
Exclusion criteria
* incapacity of accessing the mobile app
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Student adaptation to college | during the intervention | 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. |
| Fluctuations in emotion regulation | during the intervention | 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. |
| Fluctuations in college student stress | during the intervention | Feldt, R. C. (2008). Development of a brief measure of college stress: The college student stress scale. Psychological reports, 102(3), 855-860. |
| Fluctuations in stress coping styles | during the intervention | 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. |
| Rational and irrational beliefs | baseline, pre-intervention | Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014) |
| Changes in rational and irrational beliefs | immediately after the intervention | Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014) |
| Fluctuation in rational and irrational beliefs | during the intervention | Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014) |
| Mental Health | baseline, pre-intervention | Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg &Williams, 1988) |
| Changes in Mental Health | immediately after the intervention | Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg &Williams, 1988) |
| Fluctuation in Mental Health | during the intervention | Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg &Williams, 1988) |
| Mood disorders | baseline, pre-intervention | DASS Parkitny, L., & McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204. |
| Changes in mood disorders | Post-intervention (one week after the intervention) | DASS Parkitny, L., & McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204. |
| Fluctuation in mood disorders | during the intervention | DASS Parkitny, L., & McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204. |
| Fluctuation in academic stress | during the intervention | 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. |
| Fluctuation in life experiences | during the intervention | 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. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Trauma | baseline, pre-intervention | Childhood Trauma Screener Witt, A., Öz, Y., Sachser, C. et al. Validation and standardization of the Childhood Trauma Screener (CTS) in the general population. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 16, 73 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00506-6 |
| Loneliness | baseline, pre-intervention | Snape, D., & Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics. |
| Fluctuation in loneliness | during the intervention | Snape, D., & Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics. |
Countries
Romania
Outcome results
None listed