Effectiveness of a Brief Gratitude Writing Intervention on State Optimism, State Gratitude, and Psychological Distress Among Female University Students
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 96
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- State Optimism measured by State Optimism Measure
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of brief writing interventions on state optimism, state gratitude and psychological distress among female university students. There are three groups; gratitude writing group where participants are required to write about the things they are grateful for, expressive writing group where participants are required to write about their deepest feelings and thoughts from last week and a control group where participants just write about the tasks they completed in the past week.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 25 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Female undergraduate students
- •Students scoring mild to moderate distress on Kessler Psychological Distress scale
排除标准
- •Female university students enrolled in psychology programs
- •Students with physical disability
- •Students who are already in therapy
研究组 & 干预措施
Gratitude Writing
Participants write about the things they are grateful. They are given a total of 10 mins with no language or structural limit or restriction for the writing.
干预措施: Gratitude Writing Intervention (Other)
Expressive Writing
Participants are asked to write about their deepest thoughts and feelings from the past week for a period of 10 mins without any language or structure limit or restriction.
干预措施: Expressive Writing (Other)
Control
The participants were asked to write about the tasks they completed in the past week for 10 mins without any language of structure limit or restriction
干预措施: Neutral writing (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
State Optimism measured by State Optimism Measure
时间窗: Baseline (pre-intervention) and immediately after the intervention
Change in state optimism assessed using the State Optimism Measure. Higher scores indicate greater levels of state optimism.
次要结局
- State gratitude measured by the Gratitude Adjective Checklist(Baseline (pre-intervention) and immediately after the intervention)
- Psychological distress measured by the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)(Baseline (pre-intervention) and immediately after the intervention)
研究者
Kainat Safdar
Principal Investigator
Kinnaird College for Women