Writing About Experiences and Health in Older Adults

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Social Psychology

• Registration Number: NCT02472379
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

Brief Summary

UCLA researchers looking for healthy females (age 60+) to participate in a study investigating how writing about your experiences may be related to your health.

Once a week for 6 weeks, participants will write about their experiences and fill out online questionnaires. Participants will also come to the UCLA campus for blood draws and to fill out questionnaires 3 times: once prior to the 6-week writing period, once immediately after the 6-week period, and once 2-months after the writing period.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2015-06-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-06-12
• Study First Posted: 2015-06-15
• Study Start: 2015-10
• Primary Completion: 2017-01
• Study Completion: 2017-03
• Status Verified: 2017-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-05-01
• Last Update Posted: 2017-05-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 78

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy adults 60 years and older

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Exclusion Criteria

• Following a structured telephone interview, participants with the following conditions will not be able to participate:

  1. current smokers
  2. active, uncontrolled medical disorders
  3. chronic infection (e.g., Hepatitis C, HIV)
  4. use of certain medications (e.g., hypnotic and psychotropic medication, steroid use, opioid use)
  5. psychiatric disorders (e.g., current major depression, bipolar disorder)
  6. body mass index (BMI) greater than 35

Other exclusion criteria may apply.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Inflammatory activity	baseline, post 6-week writing period, 2-months post-writing period	Changes in proinflammatory cytokine and proinflammatory gene expression from blood draws
Health and well-being (self-report)	baseline, post 6-week writing period, 2-months post-writing period	Changes in self-report measures of health (e.g., pain, sleep) and well-being (e.g., social support, depression)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UCLA Clinical & Translational Research Center (CTRC); 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States