Three Good Things 2020: a Brief Text-based Wellness Intervention

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Job Related Stress
• Interventions: Behavioral: Three Good Things; Behavioral: Wait list control arm and then Three Good Things

• Registration Number: NCT04676698
• Lead Sponsor: University of Michigan

Brief Summary

This trial will be open to all Michigan Medicine Department of Family Medicine faculty, resident, or staff.

The intervention will consist of asking participants the "3 Good Things" based on positive psychology theory. Participants will be asked to list three things that went well that day and to consider their role in these outcomes. Pre and post surveys will be completed to evaluate this intervention.

At the end of the trial the study team will also select a limited number of entries from participants to share some of the "good things" which people listed. These will be edited to ensure writer anonymity and participants will be informed of this plan in the study introduction.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-12-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-12-15
• Study First Posted: 2020-12-21
• Study Start: 2021-02-03
• Primary Completion: 2021-08-28
• Study Completion: 2021-08-28
• Status Verified: 2021-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-12-02
• Last Update Posted: 2021-12-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 223

Inclusion Criteria

• Faculty, resident, or staff in the Michigan Medicine (MM) Department of Family Medicine

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Exclusion Criteria

• Not a member of Family Medicine at MM

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Three Good Things	Three Good Things	Three times weekly for three weeks, participants will receive a text-based survey asking them to type or dictate "three good things."
Waitlist Control Arm then Three Good Things	Wait list control arm and then Three Good Things	Participants will have surveys in the waiting period for 3 months and then be crossed over to the treatment arm Three Good Things.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS-SF) between the intervention and control group	Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months	This is a 10 item survey to measure positive and negative affect. Responses include; very slightly or not at all, a little, quite a bit, and extremely. Higher scores of Positive Affect (PA) subscale represent higher positive affect higher scores of Negative affect (NA) subscale represent higher negative affect.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Satisfaction with Life Questionnaire	Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months	This is a 5 question questionnaire in which participants select from 7 responses that are given a 1-7 scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Scoring ranges from 5-35 where 20 = neutral (the higher the score the more satisfaction).
Change in Gratitude using the Gratitude Adjective Checklist (GAC)	Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months	The GAC is a 3-item self-report measure of state gratitude in which participants select, (1) A little (2) Moderately, Quite a bit (4), and Extremely (5).The total score on GAC ranges from 3 to 15, with higher score indicating greater state gratitude.
Change in self-reported physical health	Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months	This is a 1 question item to assess participants physical health ( 1=Excellent 2=good 3=fair 4=poor).
Change in self-reported mental health	Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months	This is a 1 question item to assess participants mental health ( 1=Excellent 2=good 3=fair 4=poor).
Change in depression using the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9) score	Pre-Treatment (baseline) to 6 months	PHQ-9 scores reflect depression severity. Participants will select responses that include 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day. Ranges in scores are from 0-27 (Scores: 0-4 none, 5-9 mild, 10-14 moderate, 15-19 moderately severe, 20-27 severe).
Change in the Hope Scale	Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months	This is a 12 item questionnaire in which participants select from answers that include 1=definitely false 2=mostly false 3=mostly true 4=definitely true.; Scores range from 12-48 with higher scores indicating greater hope.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Michigan; 🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States