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FeelSync: Tailoring Ecological Momentary Assessments and Interventions for Emotion Awareness, Regulation, and Mental Health Outcomes

ConditionStress
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-30
SponsorMarta Marciniak

About this trial

This study investigates how different ways of reflecting on emotions in daily life influence emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and mental health. Using the FeelSync mobile app over the course of seven days, participants are prompted multiple times a day to report on their current emotional state in various formats (e.g., rating scales, multiple choice, or free text). In some groups, participants also receive brief daily exercises designed to help them practice cognitive reappraisal-a strategy that involves reframing stressful situations to reduce their emotional impact. The study aims to assess not only the overall effectiveness of these reappraisal exercises but also whether the type of emotional self-report used before the intervention affects its impact. All participants complete questionnaires before and after the app phase to track changes in mood, stress, emotional awareness, and regulation.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Owning a smartphone

Proficiency in English language

Being a student

Age between 18 to 30 years old

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Factorial

Treatments tested in this trial

  • FeelSync mobile application

    Device

    Ecological Momentary Intervention focused on cognitive reappraisal for distressing autobiographical memories, with a possibility to choose between distancing and positive reappraisal.

  • Ecological Momentary Assessment mobile application

    Device

    Ecological Momentary Assessment used for self-monitoring of emotional states.

Treatment groups

490 Participants
are divided into 7 treatment groups

7

Treatment groups

See each treatment group below.

Group A: Ecological Momentary Assessment with self-generated emotion descriptionActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Ecological Momentary Assessment with pre-defined set of emotion items to selectActive comparator 1 intervention
Group C: Ecological Momentary Assessment with pre-defined set of emotion items to rate on a Likert scaleActive comparator 1 intervention
Group D: Ecological Momentary Intervention with self-generated emotion descriptionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group E: Ecological Momentary Intervention with self-generated emotion description in mother tongueExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group F: Ecological Momentary Intervention with pre-defined set of emotion items to selectExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group G: Ecological Momentary Intervention with pre-defined set of emotion items to rate on a Likert scaleExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Perceived Stress Scale

Self-report questionnaire, Range: 0 - 40 Higher scores: Worse outcome (higher perceived stress)

Time frame
Baseline (pre-intervention, study day 1) and Follow-up (post intervention, study day 9)
2

Beck Depression Inventory II

Self-report questionnaire, Range: 0 - 63 Higher scores: Worse outcome (more severe depressive symptoms)

Time frame
Baseline (pre-intervention, study day 1) and Follow-up (post intervention, study day 9)
3

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Self-report questionnaire, \[state scale only\], Range: 20 - 80 Higher scores: Worse outcome (greater state anxiety)

Time frame
Baseline (pre-intervention, study day 1) and Follow-up (post intervention, study day 9)
4

Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

Self-report questionnaire, Reappraisal subscale: Range 1 - 7 (mean of 6 items) Higher scores: Better outcome (more frequent use of cognitive reappraisal) Suppression subscale: Range 1 - 7 (mean of 4 items) Higher scores: Worse outcome (more frequent use of suppression)

Time frame
Baseline (pre-intervention, study day 1) and Follow-up (post intervention, study day 9)

Secondary outcomes

1

Mobile Agnew Relationship Measure

Self-report questionnaire, Range: 16-112 Higher scores: Better outcome (stronger perceived therapeutic alliance with the app/intervention)

Time frame
Follow-up (post intervention, study day 9)

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Marta Marciniak

Lead sponsor

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Sponsor institution

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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