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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
550
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
Babes-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Rational and irrational beliefs
Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)
Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention
Changes in rational and irrational beliefs
Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)
Time frame: immediately after the intervention
Fluctuation in rational and irrational beliefs
Attitudes and Beliefs Scale 2 Abbreviated Version (ABS-2 - AV; Hyland et al. 2014)
Time frame: during the intervention
Mental Health
Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg \&Williams, 1988)
Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention
Changes in Mental Health
Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg \&Williams, 1988)
Time frame: immediately after the intervention
Fluctuation in Mental Health
Mental health- The General Health Questionnaire, 12-item version (GHQ-12)(Goldberg \&Williams, 1988)
Time frame: during the intervention
Mood disorders
DASS Parkitny, L., \& McAuley, J. (2010). The depression anxiety stress scale (DASS). Journal of physiotherapy, 56(3), 204.
Time frame: 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.
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Time frame: 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.
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: 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.
Time frame: during the intervention
Trauma
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
Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention
Loneliness
Snape, D., \& Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics.
Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention
Fluctuation in loneliness
Snape, D., \& Martin, G. (2018). Measuring loneliness: guidance for use of the National indicators on surveys. Office for National Statistics.
Time frame: during the intervention