Change in Social Media Use and Well-being Among College Students Receiving a Two-week Exercise or Mindfulness Intervention

Официальное название

Social Media Use Study

Обзор

The investigators will be randomizing 300 college student participants with high levels of social media use into either a 1) control condition (no intervention), a 2) mindfulness meditation cognitive intervention, or 3) a social media reduction + exercise replacement intervention. Participants complete intervention activities daily for two weeks. The investigators will collect self-report and behavioral measures of social media use and related psychological constructs at three time points: baseline, immediately after the intervention period, and one-week after the intervention period (three weeks from baseline).

Подробное описание

The objective of this study is to test two cognitive and behavioral interventions designed to reduce social media use and improve psychological constructs related to social media use in a sample of university students. The cognitive intervention is a mindfulness meditation exercise taken from the Calm app focused around gratitude and stress management. Each meditation takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and is to be done daily for two week. The second behavioral intervention is asking participants to reduce social media use for 30 minutes daily for two weeks and replacing that time with physical exercise of the participants' choosing.

Aim 1: Compare psychological constructs related to mental health (well-being, stress, depression, anxiety, loneliness, social comparisons, etc.) before and after conducting two social media use interventions over two weeks, compared to a control condition (no intervention).

Aim 2: Compare self-reported and behavioral (smartphone screenshots of social media use screentime) measures of social media use before and after two social media use interventions over two weeks, compared to a control condition (no intervention).

Aim 3: Examine mental health and social media use one week after the intervention period is complete (3-week follow up) or testing whether the interventions have effects beyond the intervention period.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Mindfulness
  15 minute daily guided meditation
• Поведенческое Social Media Reduction
  Reduce social media use at least 30 minutes daily and exercise instead
• Поведенческое Exercise
  Participants will exercise at least 30 minutes daily. Participants are given examples of common exercises (walking, yoga, strength training, etc.), but are allowed to choose any type, although dissuaded from activities with high potential for injury.

Первичные конечные точки

• Change in Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21) [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQoLBREF) scale [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in smartphone screen time (minutes) for social media use [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in number of social media use smartphone pick-ups [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in percent of time using social media [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in social media use notifications received [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]

Вторичные конечные точки (8)

• Change in University of California, Los Angeles 3-Item Loneliness Scale [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in The Gratitude Questionnaire, 6-item form (GQ-6) scale [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in Motivations for Electronic Interaction Scale (MEIS) [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in Comprehensive Assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes (CompACT-15) [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in Fear of Missing Out Scale [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in hours spent socializing inperson with peers [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]
• Change in number of evenings of past-week recreation [Срок оценки: baseline, immediately post intervention, post intervention up to one week]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• The participant is 18 or older.
• The participant must be a Johns Hopkins University student.
• Owning an iPhone or Android smartphone, with frequent use of social media use daily (>

1 hour)

• Enabling and sharing screenshots of the participant's smartphone use metrics, including number of last-week pickups, notifications received, and average screen time.
• Providing consent to participate.
• Only exercising 1 hour or less daily, on average.

Критерии исключения

• younger than 18
• Not a Johns Hopkins University Student
• Doesn't own a smart phone
• Uses smartphone less than 1 hour daily
• Exercises more than 1 hour daily

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Да

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Открытое

Основная цель

Лечение

Центры проведения

США · 1 центр

• Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT07097545 · IRB00025926-RCT2

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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