An interventional study of therapy and Placebo in Mental Health, Psychological Wellbeing and Social Wellbeing, sponsored by National University of Modern Languages. Enrolling by invitation at 1 site in Pakistan. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 25 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-02.
Sponsored by National University of Modern Languages · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the development and efficacy of an evidence-based kindness intervention. By focusing on university students in Islamabad, this research aims to determine whether a positive psychology intervention centered on practicing intentional acts, emotions and thoughts of kindness can serve as an accessible mental health tool. Ultimately, the study seeks to understand if this program can successfully enhance the psychosocial well-being of young adults navigating the unique psychological, social, and personal pressures of university life.
This study attempts to answer the following central question:
What is the impact and efficacy of a developed kindness intervention on the psychosocial well-being of emerging adults, particularly university students in Islamabad?
2,193 studies on the registry are indexed under Psychological Well-Being; 728 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 100 is close to the median of 110 across 1,796 interventional studies indexed under Psychological Well-Being.
Browse Psychological Well-Being studies →National University of Modern Languages is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.
Exclusion Criteria:
Behavioral: therapy
Behavioral: Placebo
Over a six-week period, participants are assigned standardized daily kindness tasks to actively practice in their everyday environments. By implementing this structured protocol, the study aims to determine if consistent engagement with multidimensional kindness practices can systematically enhance the psychosocial well-being of young adults
Instead of performing kindness tasks, these participants will monitor and submit a daily activity log recording their screen time, family time, and study time. This structured tracking serves as an active control condition, ensuring equal operational engagement and time commitment.
Psychosocial Wellbeing
Psychosocial Wellbeing will be measure with 2 scales (i) Psychological Wellbeing (Ryff, 1995) 42 items and six dimensions of psychological wellbeing covered by this scale are Autonomy, Personal Growth, Positive Relations, Self- Acceptance and Environmental Mastery and (ii) Social Wellbeing Scale (Keyes, 1998) 15 items and 5 dimensions are Social Integration, Social Acceptance, Social Contribution, Social Actualization and Social Coherence. For the response format both the authors have used Likert scale of 1 to 6 i.e. from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree respectively. and highest score on each means highest (better)measure outcome.
Time frame: from enrollment to the end of intervention 6 weeks
Autonomy, Personal Growth, Positive Relations, Self- Acceptance and Environmental Mastery
these are the factors of Psychological Wellbeing and the same scale will measure it
Time frame: 6 week post enrollment
Social Integration, Social Acceptance, Social Contribution, Social Actualization and Social Coherence
these are the units of Social Wellbeing scale and will be measured by the same scale.
Time frame: 6 weeks post enrollment
Plan to share: Undecided — Individual participant data cannot be shared because our explicit informed consent for open-access data sharing was not obtained from the participants prior to the study.
Started Oct 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2026, 2 months after the start.
Of 1,259 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Psychological Well-Being, half reached primary completion within 17 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 34. This study's planned 2 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 1,302 studies reached it within 16 months; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 34.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
Eligibility is decided by the study team. Share this record with your doctor or contact the team directly.
No contact was published for this record. The registry link below has the sponsor’s details.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
National University of Modern Languages