Pilot study of a well-being app to support New Zealand young people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adolescent
COVID-19
Coping skills
Mental health
Mobile apps
Pandemic
Well-being
Young adult
mHealth
Journal
Internet interventions
ISSN: 2214-7829
Titre abrégé: Internet Interv
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101631612
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
received:
27
05
2021
revised:
26
09
2021
accepted:
28
09
2021
entrez:
11
10
2021
pubmed:
12
10
2021
medline:
12
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Well-being apps represent a promising and scalable approach for improving mental health outcomes in youth, especially during a global pandemic when access to face-to-face interventions may be limited. During this pilot, we explored the acceptability, usability, and preliminary efficacy of We recruited 20 New Zealand young people aged 16-25 years via social media to trial the first prototype of the Statistically significant improvements in anxiety (p = 0.024) and stress (p = 0.017) were observed from baseline to 2-weeks post intervention. Improvements in well-being (p = 0.021), depression (p = 0.031), anxiety (p = 0.005), and stress (p = 0.004) were also observed from baseline to 6-weeks. No statistically significant changes were seen in self-compassion, optimism, or sleep quality. Effect sizes (partial η Our preliminary results suggest that
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Well-being apps represent a promising and scalable approach for improving mental health outcomes in youth, especially during a global pandemic when access to face-to-face interventions may be limited.
OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE
During this pilot, we explored the acceptability, usability, and preliminary efficacy of
METHODS
METHODS
We recruited 20 New Zealand young people aged 16-25 years via social media to trial the first prototype of the
RESULTS
RESULTS
Statistically significant improvements in anxiety (p = 0.024) and stress (p = 0.017) were observed from baseline to 2-weeks post intervention. Improvements in well-being (p = 0.021), depression (p = 0.031), anxiety (p = 0.005), and stress (p = 0.004) were also observed from baseline to 6-weeks. No statistically significant changes were seen in self-compassion, optimism, or sleep quality. Effect sizes (partial η
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Our preliminary results suggest that
Identifiants
pubmed: 34631433
doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2021.100464
pii: S2214-7829(21)00104-4
pmc: PMC8486611
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100464Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. A.S. and H.T. came up with the concept for developing the Whitu well-being app. The app is owned by the University of Auckland and is not-for-profit.
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