Assessing the Effectiveness of Digital Wellness Modules on Perceived Quality of Life

Description

The study will examine the role of digital wellness modules (brief mindfulness and light to moderate physical exercise) delivered through a smartphone wellness application and their short-term effects on health behavior motivation and change, and longer-term quality of life and non-pathological affective states.

Conditions

Wellness, Quality of Life, Anxiety, Depression

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Study overview

The study will examine the role of digital wellness modules (brief mindfulness and light to moderate physical exercise) delivered through a smartphone wellness application and their short-term effects on health behavior motivation and change, and longer-term quality of life and non-pathological affective states.

Assessing the Effectiveness of Digital Wellness Modules on Perceived Quality of Life Via a Randomized Control Trial

Assessing the Effectiveness of Digital Wellness Modules on Perceived Quality of Life

Condition
Wellness
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

New Haven

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Resides in United States
  • * Any individual who endorses any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
  • * Positive Health Screening Questions, as measured by the Health Screening Questionnaire (HSQ):
  • * Pain, discomfort or pressure in the chest, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting, or blackout, blood pressure with systolic greater than 140 or diastolic greater than 90, diagnosed or treated for any heart disease, heart murmur, chest pain (angina), palpitations (irregular beat), or heart attack, heart surgery, angioplasty, or a pacemaker, valve replacement, or heart transplant, resting pulse greater than 100 beats per minute, any arthritis, back trouble, hip /knee/joint /pain, or any other bone or joint condition, personal experience or doctor's advice of any other medical or physical reason that would prohibit the participant from doing light to moderate physical exercise, personal physician's recommendation against participating in light to moderate physical exercise because of asthma, diabetes, epilepsy or elevated cholesterol or a hernia.
  • * Positive Psychiatric Disorders Screening Questions:
  • * Positive screen for depression, excluding suicide (PHQ-8) cutoff score \> 6
  • * Positive screen for panic (SMPD) cutoff score \> 2
  • * Positive screen for generalized anxiety (GAD-7) cutoff score \> 10
  • * Positive screen psychosis (PDSQ) via psychosis section, cutoff score \> 3
  • * Positive screen mania via the Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale (ASRM) cutoff score \> 6

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Yale University,

David Klemanski, Psy.D., MPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Yale University

Study Record Dates

2024-11