NCT02472379

Writing About Experiences and Health in Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 78 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 60 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Social Psychology

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Writing: Group 1	Writing about experiences with familiar individuals in their lives, once a week for 6 weeks.
OTHER	Writing: Group 2	Writing about experiences with familiar places, once a week for 6 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2015-06-15
• Last updated: 2026-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States