The Resilience Challenge: Fostering Emotional Resilience During a Time of National Stress

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stress; Positive Affect
• Interventions: Behavioral: Resilience Challenge

• Registration Number: NCT06597032
• Lead Sponsor: Northwestern University

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of an online positive psychological intervention on positive emotion, anxiety, depression, feelings of social isolation, sleep disturbance and a sense of meaning and purpose in the general public. The main question it aims to answer is:

Will the practice of positive emotion skills via a self-guided online platform reduce feelings of anxiety, depression, social isolation, and sleep disturbance, as well as increase well-being, positive emotion, a sense of meaning and purpose, life satisfaction, and general self-efficacy?

Participants will take part in an online positive psychological skill learning intervention for 6-8 weeks. Prior to beginning, immediately after, and 4 weeks after, participants will fill out measures of their wellbeing.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2024-09-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-09-11
• Study First Posted: 2024-09-19
• Study Start: 2024-09-27
• Primary Completion: 2025-01-31
• Study Completion: 2025-04-01
• Status Verified: 2025-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-05-02
• Last Update Posted: 2025-05-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 11659

Inclusion Criteria

• Over 18 years old, Access to device connected to the internet

Exclusion Criteria

• Under 18 years old

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Resilience Challenge	Resilience Challenge	The Resilience Challenge Study is an online program containing a series of positive emotion skills for individuals experiencing stress and distress during their everyday life. The online program specifically targets positive emotion and offers an array of skills in a self-guided online delivery platform. Participants will, over the course of 6-8 weeks, access weekly skill lessons, daily homework, and daily emotion reporting. The skill lessons will include: positive events, savoring, gratitude, everyday mindfulness, mindfulness meditation, positive reappraisal, self-compassion, personal strengths, and attainable goals.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
PROMIS Positive Affect CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
PROMIS Depression CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later
PROMIS Anxiety CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later
PROMIS Meaning and Purpose CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later
PROMIS Social Isolation CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later
PROMIS Sleep Disturbance CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later
PROMIS General Self-Efficacy CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later
PROMIS General Life Satisfaction CAT	At baseline, after completion of 6-8 week intervention, and 4 weeks later

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States