Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of mental health disorders is increasing globally, and the prevalence of COVID-19 has made it worse. Evidence has indicated a major mental health burden and elevated anxiety associated with the new coronavirus outbreak in the general population. This study aims to evaluate...

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Autores principales: Khademian, Fatemeh, Aslani, Azam, Ravangard, Ramin, Bastani, Peivand, Nami, Mohammad, Jafari, Peyman
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7734615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33317615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04949-0
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author Khademian, Fatemeh
Aslani, Azam
Ravangard, Ramin
Bastani, Peivand
Nami, Mohammad
Jafari, Peyman
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Aslani, Azam
Ravangard, Ramin
Bastani, Peivand
Nami, Mohammad
Jafari, Peyman
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description BACKGROUND: The prevalence of mental health disorders is increasing globally, and the prevalence of COVID-19 has made it worse. Evidence has indicated a major mental health burden and elevated anxiety associated with the new coronavirus outbreak in the general population. This study aims to evaluate an evidence-based web application (Naranj) for stress management among Iranian college students. METHODS AND DESIGN: This study aims to present a protocol related to a randomized controlled trial among Iranian college students. The study will be conducted on 100 students from two colleges of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. The participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The intervention group participants will be provided with a web application, whereas the control group ones will be provided with an app unrelated to stress management. The primary outcome for this study will be the Perceived Stress Scale, and the two groups will be compared with respect to stress level and sleep quality. DISCUSSION: A web application will be developed according to psychological theories and will be scientifically approved for managing college students’ stress and improving their sleep quality during the COVID-19 outbreak. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials IRCT20160427027647N2. Registered on 14 May 2020
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spelling pubmed-77346152020-12-14 Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials Khademian, Fatemeh Aslani, Azam Ravangard, Ramin Bastani, Peivand Nami, Mohammad Jafari, Peyman Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: The prevalence of mental health disorders is increasing globally, and the prevalence of COVID-19 has made it worse. Evidence has indicated a major mental health burden and elevated anxiety associated with the new coronavirus outbreak in the general population. This study aims to evaluate an evidence-based web application (Naranj) for stress management among Iranian college students. METHODS AND DESIGN: This study aims to present a protocol related to a randomized controlled trial among Iranian college students. The study will be conducted on 100 students from two colleges of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. The participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The intervention group participants will be provided with a web application, whereas the control group ones will be provided with an app unrelated to stress management. The primary outcome for this study will be the Perceived Stress Scale, and the two groups will be compared with respect to stress level and sleep quality. DISCUSSION: A web application will be developed according to psychological theories and will be scientifically approved for managing college students’ stress and improving their sleep quality during the COVID-19 outbreak. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials IRCT20160427027647N2. Registered on 14 May 2020 BioMed Central 2020-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7734615/ /pubmed/33317615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04949-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Aslani, Azam
Ravangard, Ramin
Bastani, Peivand
Nami, Mohammad
Jafari, Peyman
Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials
title Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials
title_full Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials
title_fullStr Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials
title_full_unstemmed Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials
title_short Efficacy of a web application for stress management among Iranian college students during COVID-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials
title_sort efficacy of a web application for stress management among iranian college students during covid-19 outbreak: a study protocol for randomized controlled trials
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7734615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33317615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04949-0
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