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Stress Management for College Students

ConditionDistress, Emotional
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorBoise State University

About this trial

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a virtual task can reduce distress in college students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Will those who complete the virtual task have less distress? 2. Will men and women both benefit equally from the virtual task?

Researchers will compare the virtual task to a control task (another virtual task that we expect will not impact distress) to see if distress differs.

Participants will spend 20 minutes engaging in the virtual task (or the control task) on 3 different days all within one week. They will complete a survey about their well-being before starting the first virtual task and again \~6 weeks afterward.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

18 years of age or older

college student

Disqualifiers

Younger than 18 years of age

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Virtual Sequential Emotional Processing Task

    Behavioral

    A 20-minute interactive session delivered 3 times over a one week period.

  • Virtual Control Task

    Behavioral

    A time-matched (ie., 20 minute) interactive session delivered 3 times over a one week period.

Treatment groups

500 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Virtual InterventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Virtual ControlSham comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Change from baseline Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) scores to 6wks post intervention

The scale ranges from 0-6 where higher scores indicate more dysfunction.

Time frame
From enrollment to the end of the ~6wk follow up period.

Secondary outcomes

1

Change from baseline Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 scores to 6wks post intervention

The scale ranges from 0-6 where higher scores indicate more dysfunction.

Time frame
From enrollment to the end of the ~6wk follow up period.
2

Change from baseline Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-2 scores to 6wks post intervention

Possible scores range from 0-10 where higher scores indicate higher resilience.

Time frame
From enrollment to the end of the ~6wk follow up period.

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Boise State University

Lead sponsor

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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