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Partial Digitalization of Mission ReST

ConditionResilience
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-24
SponsorThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University

About this trial

The goal of this non-randomized trial is to partially digitalize and develop a web-based resilience-building intervention and pilot-test its feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness in an undergraduate sample over a 6-month implementation period. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* What are the rates of recruitment, adoption, and full program completion? * What is the intervention's overall effectiveness in enhancing resilience and mental health outcomes?

Researchers will compare the partially digitalized intervention with a structurally equivalent in-person mode of delivery.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Undergraduate at PolyU

Able to provide informed consent

Report normal to moderate levels of distress as measured by DASS-21

Disqualifiers

Severe or higher levels of mental distress as measured by DASS-21

Self-report diagnosis of mental illness

Currently receiving professional mental health services

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Digitalized Session 1 of Mission ReST

    Behavioral

    The interactive web app is integrated with an AI-based recommender system using a hybrid filtering approach that will identify and deliver suitable strategies based on users' assessment responses (i.e., multiple choice and free-text questions).

  • In-person delivery of Mission ReST Session 1

    Behavioral

    Structurally and time equivalent to the digital version of Mission ReST Session 1, delivered by a trained facilitator after assessing the participant's concerns and responses.

Treatment groups

400 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Digitalized, AI-based web appExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: In-person deliveryActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Feasibility of the digitalized individual components

Proportion of eligible individuals who consent, participate, and complete the intervention

Time frame
From baseline to end of intervention at 6 weeks
2

Acceptability of the digitalized individual components

Quantitative measure of participant satisfaction based on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "1=Very Dissatisfied" to "5=Very Satisfied," and qualitative description of participants' perspectives on acceptability of the intervention.

Time frame
From baseline to end of intervention at 6 weeks

Secondary outcomes

1

Resilience

The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), a 6-item self-report questionnaire that measures perceived ability to bounce back from adversity will be used. Responses are provided on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree=1" to "strongly agree=5." Scores are calculated based on the average of the 6 items, with cut-offs defined as low resilience (1-2.99), normal (3-4.30), and high (4.31-5.0). The Chinese BRS demonstrated good internal consistency, criterion validity, and construct validity when applied in university undergraduate students (Fung, 2020).

Time frame
From baseline to end of follow-up assessment at 10 weeks
2

Depression, anxiety, and stress

The Depression Anxiety and Stress scale (DASS-21; Henry \& Crawford, 2005) will be used to assess depression, anxiety, and stress levels. The scale comprises 21 items (seven items each), each rated on a 4-point scale from 0 ('Did not apply to me at all') to 3 ('Applied to me very much or most of the time'). The DASS-21 has demonstrated sound psychometric properties across a range of clinical and non-clinical populations, including good internal consistency and concurrent validity with the original DASS-42 (Antony et al., 1998).

Time frame
From baseline to end of follow-up assessment at 10 weeks
3

Disturbances in self-organization

The Disturbances in Self-Organization subscale of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ; Cloitre et al., 2018) will be used to assess affective dysregulation, negative self-concept, and disturbed relationships. The ITQ has demonstrated good psychometric properties in Hong Kong University student samples (Ho, Karatzias, et al., 2019).

Time frame
From baseline to end of follow-up assessment at 10 weeks

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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