NCT07350733

Cognitive Training for Student Sleep and Wellness

Recruiting now NA Last updated 2 April 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Equa in Sleep in 200 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline

12 January 2026

Primary endpoint
30 April 2026

30 April 2026

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Carnegie Mellon University
Phase	NA
Status	Recruiting now
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	200
Start date	12 January 2026
Primary completion	30 April 2026
Estimated completion	30 April 2026
Sites	4 locations across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Equa
• Coping Control

Conditions studied

• Sleep — all drugs for Sleep →
• Well-Being (Psychological Flourishing) — all drugs for Well-Being (Psychological Flourishing) →

Sponsor

Carnegie Mellon University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Sleep or Well-Being (Psychological Flourishing). Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This randomized control trial (RCT) explores two potential stress reduction interventions: a digital mindfulness program personalized for first year college students and a problem-solving based stress management program. These interventions were chosen because they rely on evidence-based approaches to stress management: problem-solving for cognitive coping and mindfulness for attention monitoring and acceptance with a focus on concentration, clarity, and equanimity. This selection allows for the assessment of the comparative efficacy of these methods in addressing student stress and stress-related outcomes (sleep duration, mental health, and academic success). Personalization to the college student offers the potential for greater engagement and user satisfaction by tailoring the program while maintaining the empirically driven structure of a digital mindfulness program. The investigators predict greater engagement and satisfaction will lead to higher adherence, and thus more skill-building. In this small RCT, first year college students will complete one of the two intervention conditions: Equa and MyTime. This will allow for the exploration of the effects of personalized mindfulness training compared to an active control condition.

This work has the potential for identifying effective, low-cost tools to help young adults manage their stress and stress-related health and may inform theory and future work on stress modification strategies for other populations. The main trials aims are:

Specific Aim 1. To explore whether a personalized mindfulness intervention (Equa) leads to greater adherence, engagement and use satisfaction compared to a digital stress management program.

Specific Aim 2. To explore whether a personalized mindfulness intervention leads to greater improvements in student stress and stress-related outcomes compared to a problem solving-based digital stress management program. Outcomes include perceived stress, depressive symptoms, nightly sleep duration, and grades.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.