A Brief App-based Mobile Health and Well-being Intervention Among Middle-aged Adults

"The intervention will run for 4-weeks. Participants will complete the 30 day, How to Meditate meditation series that provides daily 10-minute meditations. Throughout the intervention, participants will be sent reminder emails via REDCap to participate in their assigned practice sessions participants and will complete online weekly participation logs via REDCap. Additionally, they will answer one, multiple-choice ecological momentary assessment question, randomly, 3x per day via test message assessing how one currently feels. Participants will complete baseline and post-intervention measures of the Perceived Stress Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Salzberg Stress Eating Scale, Brief Cope, and Brief Resilience Scale. Following these measures, participants will be asked to complete a satisfaction questionnaire (week 5) and have the opportunity to volunteer for a short phone interview."

The intervention will run for 4-weeks. Control group participants will listen to daily 10-minute health education podcasts. Throughout the intervention, participants will be sent reminder emails via REDCap to participate in their assigned practice sessions and participants will complete online weekly participation logs via REDCap. Additionally, they will answer one, multiple-choice EMA (ecological momentary assessment) question, randomly, 3x per day via test message assessing how one currently feels. Participants will complete baseline and post-intervention measures of the Perceived Stress Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Salzberg Stress Eating Scale, Brief Cope, and Brief Resilience Scale. Following these measures, participants will be asked to complete a satisfaction questionnaire (week 5) and have the opportunity to volunteer for a short phone interview.