MindYourHead web-app: a randomized controlled trial of the effect of online personalised mental wellbeing feedback on help-seeking among Chinese international students

INTERVENTION: There are two arms: 1. Intervention arm: enhanced MindYourHead web‐app 2. Attention‐control arm: standard MindYourHead web‐app Both arms are delivered entirely online. The trial is held at the study website. Participants are able to access the intervention as many times as they wish over the study period (6 weeks). Intervention arm: Participants complete validated mental health screening questionnaires and receive personalised symptom feedback, tailored psychoeducation on symptoms and treatments, and tailored links to external resources and local mental health services. This information is presented in written text. The screening questionnaires is provided across 7 categories of mental health, including: distress, sleep, stress, alcohol consumption, smoking, procrastination, and social support. Participants can decide which of the categories they wish to explore on the app. They have the autonomy to elect to complete as many or as few of the categories as they wish. Each level of feedback for each category is tailored to the participant s score for the relevant scale for that category (e.g. K‐10). Participant’s scores will fall into one of two or three levels (e.g. high distress, moderate distress or low distress). Participants will receive personalised feedback immediately after completing the questionnaires based on their score level, along with three levels of information, “what does this mean?”, “what can I do?”, and “where can I find help?”. The feedback includes information about symptoms, frequency in the student population, the potential of reducing symptoms, and increasing wellbeing using psychological treatments and strategies. Participants are provided with up to four tailored links to external resources and supports.