Self-help App and Wellbeing
Does Using a Self-help App to Improve Wellbeing Work? - An Experimental Follow-up Study
Anxiety and worry are amongst the most common mental health difficulties. The Second Mental Health Study found a significant increase in the lifetime prevalence for GAD, from 0.9% to 1.6%. In addition, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found that among Singaporean students, 86% experienced anxiety levels that were significantly higher than the OECD average.
Past research revealed that individuals who worried more experienced decreases in life satisfaction. It was also found that worry and anxiety are significant predictors of one's psychological wellbeing .
In line with this trend, the market for wellbeing apps have been one of the fastest growing categories of apps ever since; with more than 10,000 on the market. Studies have shown that the use of wellbeing apps has been correlated with an improvement in mental wellbeing. However, due to the lack of research that focuses on disorder-specific evidence, there still exists debates around the effectiveness of wellbeing apps on anxiety and worry. In addition, the lack of research on the mediating factor of psychological mindedness in the relationship between the use of wellbeing apps and mental well-being, could be pivotal to the effectiveness of wellbeing apps.
To show the effectiveness of evidence-based wellbeing apps in targeting anxiety and worry, this study will employ the engagement of participants with a wellbeing app for a controlled period of 2 weeks before recording their mental wellbeing outcomes.This paradigm has been replicated extensively through multiple studies.
This study will use a between-groups experimental study design whereby participants will be block randomised into 2 conditions: Active control condition, and Anxiety condition. Each condition will be given a restricted version of the wellbeing app according to their treatment groups. Follow-up data will be collected at 2-weeks post intervention to establish efficacy of the intervention.
Objective 1: To evaluate the effectiveness of a wellbeing app self-help programme for reducing anxiety and worry.
Objective 2: To examine if psychological mindedness moderates hypothesised effects of wellbeing app usage and anxiety and worry.
Hypothesis 1: Participants in the intervention group will report significantly lower anxiety and worry than participants in the control group.
Hypothesis 2: Psychological mindedness will moderate the effect of the wellbeing app's self-help programme on anxiety and worry: Participants high in psychological mindedness will benefit more from the wellbeing apps than those with lower scores on psychological mindedness.
Přehled studie
Postavení
Podmínky
Intervence / Léčba
Typ studie
Zápis (Aktuální)
Fáze
- Nelze použít
Kontakty a umístění
Studijní místa
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Singapore, Singapur, 119077
- National University of Singapore
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Kritéria účasti
Kritéria způsobilosti
Věk způsobilý ke studiu
Přijímá zdravé dobrovolníky
Pohlaví způsobilá ke studiu
Popis
Inclusion Criteria:
- At least 18 years old for NUS students, or 21 for non NUS students
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participants who do not meet the age requirement
Studijní plán
Jak je studie koncipována?
Detaily designu
- Primární účel: Podpůrná péče
- Přidělení: Randomizované
- Intervenční model: Paralelní přiřazení
- Maskování: Trojnásobný
Zbraně a zásahy
Skupina účastníků / Arm |
Intervence / Léčba |
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Experimentální: Anxiety Group
Participants will download the anxiety application to their own handphones, and will complete the programme subsequently in their own time over the course of 2 weeks.
The expected duration participants will spend on the anxiety application daily is estimated to be around 5 to 10 minutes, amounting to a total of around 140 minutes (2 hours and 10 minutes) during the 2 weeks intervention.
Participants in the anxiety group are asked to complete daily brief exercises.
For example, they will practice noticing worry thoughts and journal them down.
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The Intellect mobile app (containing the anxiety application) can be freely downloaded from the App store and Google Play store for free.
The app provides access to the different programmes.
The mobile app has been pilot tested by Intellect before the release on the App and Google Play store.
However, for this research project Intellect is going to provide the the programmes as stand alone applications exclusively for the participants of this research.
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Aktivní komparátor: Procrastination Group
Participants will download the procrastination application to their own handphones, and will complete the programme subsequently in their own time over the course of 2 weeks.
The expected duration participants will spend on the procrastination application daily is estimated to be around 5 to 10 minutes, amounting to a total of around 140 minutes (2 hours and 10 minutes) during the 2 weeks intervention.
Participants in the procrastination group are asked to complete daily brief exercises.
For example, they will practice to reduce procrastination-related thoughts.
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The Intellect mobile app (containing the procrastination application) can be freely downloaded from the App store and Google Play store for free.
The app provides access to the different programmes.
The mobile app has been pilot tested by Intellect before the release on the App and Google Play store.
However, for this research project Intellect is going to provide the the programmes as stand alone applications exclusively for the participants of this research.
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Co je měření studie?
Primární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
Popis opatření |
Časové okno |
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General Anxiety Disorder - 7 (GAD-7)
Časové okno: Measured before the intervention
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General Anxiety Disorder- 7 (GAD-7) is a 7 item self report instrument that measures anxiety and is widely used in research in clinical and nonclinical practices anxiety as a continuum (Siddaway, Taylor & Wood, 2018) and is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing anxiety in a general population (Löwe et al., 2008).
Items are scored on a 4-point scale, ranging from "not at all (0)", "several days (1)", "more than half the days (2)" and "nearly everyday (3)".
GAD-7 produced an excellent internal consistency of α=0.92 in a sample of 2982 participants (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams, & Löwe, 2006).
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Measured before the intervention
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General Anxiety Disorder - 7 (GAD-7)
Časové okno: 1-2 days after completing the intervention (2 weeks)
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General Anxiety Disorder- 7 (GAD-7) is a 7 item self report instrument that measures anxiety and is widely used in research in clinical and nonclinical practices anxiety as a continuum (Siddaway, Taylor & Wood, 2018) and is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing anxiety in a general population (Löwe et al., 2008).
Items are scored on a 4-point scale, ranging from "not at all (0)", "several days (1)", "more than half the days (2)" and "nearly everyday (3)".
GAD-7 produced an excellent internal consistency of α=0.92 in a sample of 2982 participants (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams, & Löwe, 2006).
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1-2 days after completing the intervention (2 weeks)
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General Anxiety Disorder - 7 (GAD-7)
Časové okno: 2 weeks after the completion of the intervention
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General Anxiety Disorder- 7 (GAD-7) is a 7 item self report instrument that measures anxiety and is widely used in research in clinical and nonclinical practices anxiety as a continuum (Siddaway, Taylor & Wood, 2018) and is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing anxiety in a general population (Löwe et al., 2008).
Items are scored on a 4-point scale, ranging from "not at all (0)", "several days (1)", "more than half the days (2)" and "nearly everyday (3)".
GAD-7 produced an excellent internal consistency of α=0.92 in a sample of 2982 participants (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams, & Löwe, 2006).
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2 weeks after the completion of the intervention
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Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9)
Časové okno: Measured before the intervention
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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) i s a 9 item self report instrument that measures depression.
Items are scored on a 4-point scale, ranging from "not at all (0)", "several days (1)", "more than half the days (2)" and "nearly everyday (3)".
In a sample of 3000 patients in the PHQ Primary Care Study, PHQ-9 achieved an excellent internal consistency of α=0.89 (Kroenke, Spitzer, & Williams, 2001).
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Measured before the intervention
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Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9)
Časové okno: 1-2 days after completing the intervention (2 weeks)
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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) i s a 9 item self report instrument that measures depression.
Items are scored on a 4-point scale, ranging from "not at all (0)", "several days (1)", "more than half the days (2)" and "nearly everyday (3)".
In a sample of 3000 patients in the PHQ Primary Care Study, PHQ-9 achieved an excellent internal consistency of α=0.89 (Kroenke, Spitzer, & Williams, 2001).
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1-2 days after completing the intervention (2 weeks)
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Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9)
Časové okno: 2 weeks after the completion of the intervention
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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) i s a 9 item self report instrument that measures depression.
Items are scored on a 4-point scale, ranging from "not at all (0)", "several days (1)", "more than half the days (2)" and "nearly everyday (3)".
In a sample of 3000 patients in the PHQ Primary Care Study, PHQ-9 achieved an excellent internal consistency of α=0.89 (Kroenke, Spitzer, & Williams, 2001).
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2 weeks after the completion of the intervention
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Sekundární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
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Časové okno |
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Psychological Mindedness Scale
Časové okno: Measured before the intervention
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Psychological Mindedness Scale (PM): 45 item self report instrument that measures an individual's ability to be reflective about interpersonal relationships, psychological processes and meanings across both intellectual and emotional dimensions.
Items are scored on a 4 point-scale ranging from "strongly agree (4)" to "strongly disagree (1)".
The PM has a good internal consistency of α= 0.86 and recomputed to 0.87 in a study of 256 patients (Conte et al., 1990).
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Measured before the intervention
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App Engagement Scale
Časové okno: Measured 1-2 days after completing the intervention (2 weeks)
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App Engagement Scale (AES): 7 item self report feedback instrument that indicates the degree to which an individual engages with an app.
Items are scored on a 5 point-scale ranging from "strongly agree (5)" to "strongly disagree (1)".
This App Engagement Scale had good internal reliability, Cronbach's α = .839
in a study of 1349 app user (Rickard & Bakker, 2019).
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Measured 1-2 days after completing the intervention (2 weeks)
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Spolupracovníci a vyšetřovatelé
Sponzor
Spolupracovníci
Vyšetřovatelé
- Vrchní vyšetřovatel: Oliver Suendermann, National University of Singapore
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