Impact of an Online Positive Affect Journaling Intervention
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 70
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- National Health Interview Survey
研究概览
简要总结
In this study the investigators plan to recruit 70 patients reporting high levels of stress to test the impact of Positive Affect Journaling. Patients randomized to use the online intervention will be asked to journal about one of seven topics, several days each week, for three months. The topics (e.g., "What went well") are designed to help the individual focus on some positive aspect of their life or themselves over the past day. Each topic is based on prompts shown to be effective in studies of up to one week in duration. In the summer of 2012, our research team pilot tested each prompt with 20 patients with high levels of anxiety, which led to important changes to the prompts, to increase their potential impact. The main aim is to understand the impact of Positive Affect Journaling on psychological distress, as measured by the National Health Interview Survey.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 21 Years 至 80 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Fluently speaks, writes, and read English
- •Report elevated levels of stress
- •Be between 21-80 years of age
- •Have access to the Internet
- •Have an ECOG Performance Status of 0 (Fully active) through 3 (Limited self-care)
排除标准
- •High risk for suicidality on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders (SCID).
- •Pregnant or planning to get pregnant in the next 3 months
- •Moving in the next 6 months
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention
Participants in the intervention condition will be asked to write for 15 minutes on three days each week to one of the seven positive affect writing prompts on www.stressvax.com. Subjects who do not complete a journal entry within 7 days will receive an email reminder, in case they have lost their password or have some technical problem accessing the site.
干预措施: Positive Affect Journaling (Behavioral)
Control
As there is no clinical standard of care treatment for psychological distress, patients randomized into this condition will receive their usual care. At the end of three months, subjects in this condition will be given access to the positive affect journaling intervention.
结局指标
主要结局
National Health Interview Survey
时间窗: 3 month follow up
The NHIS measures perceived levels of stress over the past 12 months.
次要结局
- Brief Resilience Scale(3 month follow up)
- Satisfaction with Life scale(3 month follow up)
- Cancer Quality of Life(3 month follow up)
- Perceived Stress Scale(3 month follow up)
- Social Provisions Scale(3 month follow up)
- Positive and Negative Affect Schedule score(3 month follow up)
- Healthy Days score(3 month follow up)
研究者
Christopher Sciamanna, MD, MPH
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center