Daily Assessment of Mood and Social Media Behaviors Study

• Sponsor: Southern Methodist University (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT04349423
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 324
• Location: 1
• Arms: 4
• Actual Duration (Months): 14.9
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 21.7

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The purpose of this research study is to learn more about social media usage and its relation to emotions, biology, and mental health. Participants will complete daily assessments (5 times a day) over the course of 11 days in which they will report on their social media use, behaviors, and mood. During the first 4 days participants will be asked to continue using social media as typical. In the second half (7 days) participants will be randomized to social media usage groups (0 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hour, 3 hours). There will be mental health and well-being measures provided at the beginning and end of the study. Lastly, to better understand how social media usage effects underlying mechanisms of stress, participants will be asked to provide saliva samples for 3 nights (pre, mid, and post) to assess for basal cortisol levels.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Anxiety; Stress; Depression; Cortisol	Behavioral: Social Media Usage Manipulation	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 324 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Intervention Model Description: Participants will be randomized to social media usage groups to assess if reduction social media will improve mood and in turn lower depressive and anxiety symptoms. The groups include 0 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hours of use a day.Participants will be randomized to social media usage groups to assess if reduction social media will improve mood and in turn lower depressive and anxiety symptoms. The groups include 0 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hours of use a day.
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: Daily Assessment of Mood and Social Media Behaviors Study
• Actual Study Start Date: Feb 1, 2020
• Actual Primary Completion Date: May 1, 2021
• Actual Study Completion Date: May 1, 2021

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: No Social Media Use Participants will be asked to refrain from using all social media	Behavioral: Social Media Usage Manipulation; Behavioral Intervention of social media usage.
Experimental: Maximum 30 minutes of use Participants will be asked to only use social media at most 30 minutes a day.	Behavioral: Social Media Usage Manipulation; Behavioral Intervention of social media usage.
Experimental: Maximum 1 hour of use Participants will be asked to only use social media at most 60 minutes a day.	Behavioral: Social Media Usage Manipulation; Behavioral Intervention of social media usage.
Experimental: Control Control Group	Behavioral: Social Media Usage Manipulation; Behavioral Intervention of social media usage.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Changes in "Positive and Negative Affect Schedule" (PANAS) [Pre and post. Daily 5 times a day for 11 days]

   Examines mood fluctuations. Scores can range from 10-50 for both the Positive and Negative Affect with the lower scores representing lower levels of Positive/Negative Affect and higher scores representing higher levels of Positive/Negative Affect.

2. Changes in "Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale" (DASS) [Pre and Post. Daily for 11 days]

   Examines Depressive, Anxiety, and Stress symptoms. Minimum 0 maximum 63. Higher scores indicate more depression, anxiety and or stress.

3. Changes in "Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale" [Pre-Post- Daily for 11 days]

   Examines behavioral goal achievement. Minimum 0 and maximum 54. Larger scores means an ability to be more active.

4. Changes in "Social Media Use" [Daily for 11 days]

   Survey and Phone based Applications will assess for daily use of social media time and behaviors.

5. Changes in "A clinically useful depression outcome scale" (CUDOS) [Pre-Post- Daily for 11 days]

   Tracks Depression Symptoms. Minimum 0 maximum 74. Larger scores means more depressive symptoms.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria:

• Below age of 18

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Southern Methodist University	Dallas	Texas	United States	75205

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Southern Methodist University

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Southern Methodist University
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04349423
• Other Study ID Numbers: H19-131-ROQA
• First Posted: Apr 16, 2020
• Last Update Posted: Feb 8, 2022
• Last Verified: Jan 1, 2022

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Keywords provided by Southern Methodist University: Social Media
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Depression

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Feb 8, 2022