NCT02954965

Brief Mood Enhancement Intervention

Enhancing Mood Among Graduate Students: Evaluation of a Brief, Phone-Administered Behavioral Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the current study is to test the efficacy of two brief, behavioral interventions intended to improve burnout among doctoral-level graduate students (n = 102). Specifically, individuals will be randomly assigned to one of three intervention conditions: 1) Reward: a brief intervention to help participants increase engagement in healthy and rewarding values-driven behaviors, 2) Approach: a brief intervention to help participants identify and decrease emotion-driven avoidance of important goals, or 3) Control: a control condition that involves monitoring only. Multilevel modeling will be used to assess changes in burnout, mood, and stress, following the interventions, controlling for participants' individual baseline levels of these variables.

Conditions

• Stress, Psychological
• Burnout, Professional

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Reward	Brief behavioral intervention (administered during a 45-minute phone call) that is designed to improve graduate student burnout by helping participants to identify activities that are rewarding and pleasurable and to integrate these activities into their schedule.
BEHAVIORAL	Approach	Brief behavioral intervention (administered during a 45-minute phone call) that is designed to improve graduate student burnout by helping participants to identify activities that are challenging, but important to their long-term goals and values, and to integrate these activities into their schedule.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-11-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2016-11-04
• Last updated: 2018-02-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States