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Field
Intervention (Public)
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Before
The study is an online survey with university students in Mexico as participants. The bulk of the survey consists of questions to elicit respondents’ mental health state (using PHQ and GAD screeners), experience with using therapy, experience with student services, and demographic information. Experimental variation comes from a random assignment of participants to one of the three treatment conditions. In the first arm, participants are exposed to mental health information in the form of an infographic. In addition, they complete a reflection activity with an open-ended question and a vignette component. In the second arm, participants are exposed to the information component only. In the third arm (control arm), participants are exposed to a more neutral set of questions about general campus services focused on mental health.
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After
The study is an online survey with university students in Mexico as participants. The bulk of the survey consists of questions to elicit respondents’ mental health state (using PHQ and GAD screeners), experience with using therapy, experience with student services, and demographic information. Experimental variation comes from a random assignment of participants to one of the three treatment conditions. In the first arm, participants are exposed to mental health information in the form of an infographic. In addition, they complete a reflection activity with an open-ended question and a vignette component. In the second arm, participants are exposed to the information component only. In the third arm (control arm), participants are exposed to a more neutral set of questions about general campus services focused on mental health.
Follow-up as of April 26, 2025:
In April 2025, we designed a follow-up survey. You can find the description of outcomes and hypotheses under the Docs & Materials section.
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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
We use a between-subject design and randomly split student respondents into three groups: (1) Information+Reflection: subjects are exposed to a mental health information component and reflection component; (2) Information: subjects are exposed to a mental health information component only; (3) Control: subjects are exposed to questions unrelated to mental health.
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After
We use a between-subject design and randomly split student respondents into three groups: (1) Information+Reflection: subjects are exposed to a mental health information component and reflection component; (2) Information: subjects are exposed to a mental health information component only; (3) Control: subjects are exposed to questions unrelated to mental health.
The study pre-analysis plan can be accessed on the Open Science Framework (OSF) platform via https://osf.io/6ng8x/.
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