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

Recruitment: Participants will be recruited during winter/spring 2020. Interested participants will be directed to a REDCap link to complete an online eligibility screener. The screener will take approximately 10 minutes to complete (See Eligibility Survey). The survey will be free, voluntary, and available online. Participants will be allowed to skip questions in the survey. Eligibility: Once eligibility is determined; participants will be sent an informed consent and baseline questionnaire via a REDCap link. This measure should take approximately 25 minutes to complete (See Informed Consent and Baseline Questionnaires). Once Informed Consent is signed and the Baseline Questionnaires are complete, participants will be randomized via an online randomizer (i.e., randomizer.com) to either an attention control podcast group or the Calm meditation group. Ineligible participants will be sent an email notifying their status and why. Enrollment: The Research Team will email the intervention participants that will include instructions to download Calm (See Participant Scripts). The control participants will be emailed instructions to download the podcast app (See Participant Scripts). Intervention: The intervention will run for 4-weeks. Intervention participants will complete the 30 day, "How to Meditate" meditation series that provides daily 10-minute meditations and the control group will listen to daily 10-minute health education podcasts. Throughout the intervention, both groups will be sent reminder emails via REDCap to participate in their assigned practice sessions (see Participant Scripts) 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 (between 8am and 8pm) via test message assessing how one currently feels (see Study Questionnaires). Tracking: Participation in the Calm meditations will be tracked (meditation name, time of day, and time spent in meditation) by weekly REDCap participation logs and the Calm team. Post-intervention: Post-intervention questionnaires and the satisfaction survey will be emailed to intervention and control participants via a link from REDCap (See Post-intervention questionnaires). The post-intervention survey will take about 25 minutes and the satisfaction survey will take about 10 minutes. Post-intervention interview: Post-intervention phone interviews will be conducted the week following the end of the intervention (week 5) to no more than 20 participants in each group and take about 15-20 minutes.