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Smartphone Application, Mood and Stress

NCT02365220 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2016-03-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the placebo effect in a smartphone-based training, ostensibly designed to improve mood and perceived stress by daily exposition to either mock sound or color.

Conditions

  • Smartphone Application
  • Placebo Effect
  • Mood
  • Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

No expectancy (control)

No expectancy instruction with regard to the efficacy of the daily smartphone-based training (exposition to either mock sound or color)

BEHAVIORAL

Prospective expectancy

Prospective expectancy instruction ("Training will have an effect on...") with regard to the efficacy of the daily smartphone-based training (exposition to either mock sound or color)

BEHAVIORAL

Retrospective expectancy

Retrospective expectancy instruction ("Training already had an effect on...") with regard to the efficacy of the daily smartphone-based training (exposition to either mock sound or color)

BEHAVIORAL

Prospective and retrospective expectancy

Prospective ("Training will have an effect on...") and retrospective ("Training already had an effect on...") expectancy instruction with regard to the efficacy of the daily smartphone-based training (exposition to either mock sound or color)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Basel

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gunther Meinlschmidt, Prof. Dr. · University of Basel, Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-02-28
Primary Completion
2015-10-31
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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