First big news: IMPROVA diary study is starting January 13th – Join now!
18.12.2024 | Reading time: 2-3 minutes
Welcome to the IMPROVA news blog! Here you will find the latest news about IMPROVA and selected mental health topics. More is yet to come– stay curious 😉
Driving research forward with your live-data
Diary Study? What are you talking about?
The IMPROVA diary study is like a little add-on study within the “big” IMPROVA study. The IMPROVA diary study will be conducted from the 13th until the 26th of January 2025 for all eSano app users. It’s great if you join in, but you don’t have to in order to use IMPROVA.
Ok, but what is the IMPROVA diary study about exactly?
We are constantly surrounded by news of some kind, learning about what is going on in the world, which may affect our mood. The IMPROVA diary study collects data anonymously, real-time and in your daily life. You will get to fill out very short questionnaires (2-3 min) three times a day where you indicate how you feel at that given moment and what news you have learned recently. Your answers enable researchers to draw conclusions about how mood is affected by media consumption in students.
This sounds too complicated; I don’t know if I should participate…
Don’t worry! You don’t have to understand the science behind it all, it’s actually best if you don’t overthink it and just answer the questions naturally 🙂
Why should I participate though?
You will contribute to research that may lead to new scientific discoveries and form the way our society thinks about and reacts to media consumption of young people. Good decisions can only be made on the basis of solid scientific research – and for that we need you!
Ok, and what do I have to do if I want to participate?
To participate you just have to download the eSano App for iOs or Android and login with your eSano account to get access to the eSano training. We recommend downloading the app in any case. Then you do the general introduction module to “unlock” the second introduction module on the diary study. At the same time the diary study becomes activated for your account, meaning that from the 13th until the 26th of January 2025 you will get daily reminders to fill out your diary (questionnaires at morning, noon and evening). Try to fill them out consistently to render your data most useful, but if you miss one it’s not the end of the world 😉
Thank you for participating!