Tokyo, June 19 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061938) titled 'Encouraging campus belonging-cafe visits to improve sense of belonging in first-year university students: a randomized controlled trial' on June 18.

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Basic Design - Parallel Randomization - Randomized Blinding - Open -no one is blinded Control - No treatment

Primary Sponsor: Institute - Yokohama City University

Condition: Condition - First-year university students at risk of social isolation, maladjustment, and disengagement (outcomes: sense of belonging and well-being) Classification by malignancy - Others Genomic information - NO

Objective: Narrative objectives1 - To test whether encouraging disengaged (baseline non-user) first-year university students to visit a permanent on-campus belonging cafe improves their sense of belonging, relative to no such encouragement. Basic objectives2 - Efficacy

Intervention: Interventions/Control_1 - Invitation to a LINE official account that delivers encouragement to visit the cafe. On each cafe open day (Mondays during term), a push message notes that the cafe is open that day, timed to coincide with the opportunity to act; subsequent messages convey low-threshold ways of using the cafe (who uses it, how, and when). The intervention runs across the five-wave follow-up (approximately 8 months, around June 2026 to January 2027). The open-day announcement is fixed, while the timing and frequency of other messages are adjusted pragmatically and the messages actually delivered are logged. Survey schedule and incentives are identical across groups. Interventions/Control_2 - Invitation to a LINE official account that delivers only survey-related communications, with no encouragement to visit the cafe. Survey schedule and incentives are identical to the encouragement group.

Eligibility: Age-lower limit - 18 years-old <= Age-upper limit - Not applicable Gender - Male and Female Key inclusion criteria - First-year undergraduate students enrolled at the Kanazawa-Hakkei campus of Yokohama City University who reported no prior use of the cafe (non-users) at baseline. Key exclusion criteria - Students of the School of Medicine (based at a separate campus without practical access to the cafe). Students who reported prior cafe use at baseline (followed separately as a non-randomized reference cohort, not randomized). Target Size - 200

Recruitment Status: Recruitment status - No longer recruiting Date of protocol fixation - 2026 Year 05 Month 22 Day Date of IRB - 2026 Year 05 Month 22 Day Anticipated trial start date - 2026 Year 06 Month 01 Day Last follow-up date - 2027 Year 01 Month 31 Day

To know more, visit https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000070843

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