SWAG-R Program for Anxiety, Depression, and Stress in NSU Students
This study is testing an online mental health coaching program called the SWAG-R Program. It's designed for undergraduate students at NSU to help reduce anxiety, depression, and stress, and to improve overall well-being and quality of life. You can join if you are an NSU undergraduate student, 18 years or older, and not currently receiving other mental health services or experiencing acute mental health needs. The study will measure how much your anxiety and depression symptoms change, and how well you manage your emotions over 24 weeks. The current recruitment status is unclear, but the study plans to enroll 160 participants.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study with 160 planned participants. You will be randomly assigned to either start the 6-week online coaching program right away or be placed on a waitlist for 6 weeks.
- What's involved
- You will complete a 10-15 minute phone pre-screen, a 10-minute phone call for informed consent, and then electronically sign the consent form. You will complete electronic assessments at your convenience and, if assigned to the program, participate in six 60-minute online coaching sessions.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your anxiety, depression, and emotion regulation will be measured for up to 24 weeks after enrollment.
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The Student Wellness and Emotional Growth Resiliency (SWAG-R) Program
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Kayla Thayer, Ph.D., ABPP · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Nova Southeastern University
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What this trial measures
- Participant anxiety symptom severityFrom enrollment up to 24 weeks
GAD-7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 scale): GAD-7 total score for the seven items ranges from 0 to 21. 0-4: minimal anxiety 5-9: mild anxiety 10-14: moderate anxiety 15-21: severe anxiety
- Participant depression symptoms severityFrom enrollment up to 24 weeks
PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire 9): Interpretation of Total Score 1-4 Minimal depression 5-9 Mild depression 10-14 Moderate depression 15-19 Moderately severe depression 20-27 Severe depression
- Participant difficulties with emotion regulationFrom enrollment up to 24 weeks
Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS): a 36-item self-report measure of six facets of emotion regulation. Items are rated on a scale of 1 ("almost never \[0-10%\]") to 5 ("almost always \[91-100%\]"). Higher scores indicate greater difficulties in emotion regulation (i.e., greater emotion dysregulation).
- Participant Stress levelsFrom enrollment up to 24 weeks
Perceived Stress Scale: Individual scores on the PSS can range from 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating higher perceived stress. Scores ranging from 0-13 would be considered low stress. Scores ranging from 14-26 would be considered moderate stress. Scores ranging from 27-40 would be considered high perceived stress.
- Participant ResiliencyFrom enrollment up to 24 weeks
Brief Resiliency Scale: Scoring: Add the responses varying from 1-5 for all six items giving a range from 6-30. Divide the total sum by the total number of questions answered. Higher scores indicate greater resiliency.
- Participant quality of life and life satisfactionFrom enrollment up to 24 weeks
WHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Inventory): contains 26 items and addresses 4 QOL domains: physical health (7 items), psychological health (6 items), social relationships (3 items) and environment (8 items). Two other items measure overall QOL and general health. Items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale (low score of 1 to high score of 5) to determine a raw item score. Subsequently, the mean score for each domain is calculated, resulting in a mean score per domain that is between 4 and 20. Finally, this mean domain score is then multiplied by 4 in order to transform the domain score into a scaled score, with a higher score indicating a higher QOL.
- Participant adaptive copingFrom enrollment up to 24 weeks
Brief Cope Inventory: Scales are computed as follows (with no reversals of coding): Self-distraction, items 1 and 19 Active coping, items 2 and 7 Denial, items 3 and 8 Substance use, items 4 and 11 Use of emotional support, items 5 and 15 Use of instrumental support, items 10 and 23 Behavioral disengagement, items 6 and 16 Venting, items 9 and 21 Positive reframing, items 12 and 17 Planning, items 14 and 25 Humor, items 18 and 28 Acceptance, items 20 and 24 Religion, items 22 and 27 Self-blame, items 13 and 26 Minimum scores on sub scales =2, maximum scores = 8 with higher scores indicating greater reliance on that type of coping.