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An Interactive Mobile Health (mHealth) App as Intervention for High Anxiety and Depression in College Students

NCT07017569 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 125

Last updated 2025-06-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a mobile health app called mHELP can help college students manage anxiety, stress, and depression.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does using the mHELP app reduce anxiety, stress, and depression symptoms both over time and in real-time?
* Does the app help students engage with mental health services and self-management tools?

Researchers will compare students who use the full version of the mHELP app to those who use a control version with limited features.

Participants will:

* Use an Apple Watch and iPhone app for 10 weeks
* Receive reminders to complete weekly mental health questionnaires
* Tap a button to report high-stress moments or respond to automatic alerts from the app
* Intervention group will use app features like breathing exercises, journaling, and educational videos
* Intervention group will receive 2 free telehealth counseling sessions

Conditions

  • Anxiety
  • Depression - Major Depressive Disorder
  • Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile health application

This group will receive the mHELP mobile and watch application with full functionality which provides weekly self-assessment and self-reported events PLUS self-management functionality. The self- management functionality includes additional on-demand features (see the attached list of features). These include * a breath functionality that provides a times breathing exercise similar to the one provided by the Apple iWatch; users can see changes in their heart rate during the breathing exercise and will see a summary of heart rate changes * a calendar features that allows students to upload their class schedule and see different activities such as self-assessments * a journaling feature that allows participants to write a journal * a task list to take note of major tasks and add them to calendar * a set of relaxation media including videos and audios that participants can use on demand

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Farzan Sasangohar, Ph.D. Industrial Engineering · Texas A&M University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-20
Primary Completion
2021-12-15
Completion
2021-12-15

Countries

  • United States

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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