A Randomized Pilot Trial Investigating a Novel Mobile Application for Practicing Exercises from ACT

The 1-hour ACT psychoeducational workshop will introduce participants to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and include guided practice of the mindfulness exercise that they will be asked to practice for two weeks.

The ACTaide mobile app is a novel app that is designed to support home practice of exercises from ACT via annotated image sequences and reminder notifications. A prototype version that features the dropping anchor mindfulness exercise will be investigated in this study.

This app will include only reminder notifications to encourage home practice of the dropping anchor mindfulness exercise in the comparator condition. It will not include the annotated image sequence for the exercise (i.e., the primary feature of the ACTaide app to be investigated in the intervention condition).