NCT01873599

Impact of an Online Positive Affect Journaling Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Positive Affect Journaling

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2014-02-01
• Completion: 2014-02-01
• First posted: 2013-06-10
• Last updated: 2014-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States