Mood Lifters Online for Graduate Students and Young Professionals

December 3, 2024 updated by: Patricia Deldin, University of Michigan

Mood Lifters Online

Mood Lifters is a revolutionary mental wellness program that teaches scientifically validated strategies in a supportive group setting. This study will test two new versions of the program designed specifically for graduate students and young professionals.

Participants will need to attend 12 hour long virtual weekly meetings on Zoom that focus on helpful mental health strategies and skills. Participants will be encourage to practice what the participants learn at home in order to improve their mood or mental wellness. Additionally, participants will complete a series of measures (approx. 1-1.5 hours) prior to, at the end of the program, 1 month after the program and 6 months after the program.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

362

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Michigan
      • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48103
        • University of Michigan

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

22 years to 32 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants ages 22-32 (must identify as either a graduate student or a young professional)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Active suicidality, mania, or psychosis

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Graduate Student Program
This is the graduate student version of the program. The original program has been tailored to this population to meet its specific needs and address its specific concerns.
Behavioral: Mood Lifters
Participants will need to attend 12 hour long virtual weekly meetings on Zoom that focus on helpful mental health strategies and skills. Participants will be encourage to practice what they learn at home in order to improve their mood or mental wellness.
Experimental: Young Professional Program
This is the young professional version of the program. The original program has been tailored to this population to meet its specific needs and address its specific concerns.
Behavioral: Mood Lifters
Participants will need to attend 12 hour long virtual weekly meetings on Zoom that focus on helpful mental health strategies and skills. Participants will be encourage to practice what they learn at home in order to improve their mood or mental wellness.
No Intervention: Waitlist
This is the waitlist. Participants may be randomly assigned here first. After the typical period fo the intervention on the waitlist (12 weeks), these participants will be invited to join the arm which they are most appropriate for (i.e., graduate student or young professional).

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Patient Health Questionnaire - 9
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Assesses Depressive Symptoms (Range 0-27; higher scores indicate more significant symptoms of depression)
through study completion, an average of 1 year
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 7
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Assesses Anxiety Symptoms (Range 0-21; higher scores indicate more significant symptoms of anxiety)
through study completion, an average of 1 year
Perceived Stress Scale
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Assesses Perceived stress (Range 0-40; higher scores indicate more significant perceived stress)
through study completion, an average of 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Michigan

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 22, 2021

Primary Completion (Actual)

February 1, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

February 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 22, 2021

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 30, 2021

First Posted (Actual)

October 14, 2021

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

December 6, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 3, 2024

Last Verified

December 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • HUM00163570

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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