评估InsightApp对焦虑,有价值的行动和心理性的有效性:纵向随机对照试验
1Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany.
JMIR mental health
|February 4, 2025
概括
这项研究发现,InsightApp干预减少了面对现实生活压力的焦虑和焦虑斗争. 该应用程序还帮助用户采取了更多价值一致的行动,显示了压力管理的前景.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 心理健康技术 心理健康技术
- 数字治疗学数字治疗学
背景情况:
- 焦虑障碍很普遍,压力对其发展有很大影响.
- 生态瞬间干预 (EMI) 通过在现实生活环境中培养技能,为压力和焦虑管理提供了一个有希望的方法.
- 洞察App是一个游戏化的EMI,旨在增强对挑战性情况的元认知应对策略.
研究的目的:
- 评估InsightApp在改善应对压力和焦虑的元认知应对策略方面的有效性.
- 评估InsightApp对促进价值一致行动的影响.
- 为了确定这些效应随着时间的推移而保留,并进一步了解压力反应中的元认知.
主要方法:
- 一个随机对照试验,涉及228名参与者被分配到InsightApp (治疗) 或安慰剂应用程序 (控制).
- 一周的干预阶段测量日常焦虑,与焦虑的斗争,和价值一致的行动.
- 使用多层模型进行纵向数据分析,以评估参与者对日常压力因素的情绪和行为反应的内因果影响.
主要成果:
- 干预后立即或随访时没有观察到一般心理健康和幸福感的显著差异.
- 与对照组相比,治疗组在面对现实生活中的压力时,焦虑的增加减少了15%,与焦虑作斗争的增加减少了12%.
- 使用InsightApp的个体表现出7%更高的价值一致行动倾向,随着随访观察到焦虑反应的持续减少.
结论:
- 洞察应用程序 (InsightApp) 的结果各不相同,没有显著的整体改善,但在压力事件中显著减少了焦虑和焦虑的斗争.
- 该干预措施对减少焦虑对压力的反应性产生了持续的积极影响.
- 需要进一步的研究,但研究结果暂时表明,像InsightApp这样的游戏化EMI是通过自适应的元认知策略来管理现实生活压力的有希望的方法.
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