NCT04112225

Testing the Effectiveness of an Online Behavioral Intervention in Reducing Loneliness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 890 (actual)
• Sponsor: Happify Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will use a longitudinal randomized experimental design. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a positive affect skills intervention or a psychoeducation control group and assessed with questionnaires at baseline and immediately post 8-week intervention.

Detailed description

Participants will be randomly assigned to either a positive affect skills intervention or a psychoeducation control group, with each intervention lasting 8-weeks. Participants in the positive affect skills intervention will have full access to the unchanged Happify platform. The psychoeducation control group participants will use a version of the Happify platform that encourages thinking about well-being through quizzes and polls without providing any instructions for promotion (i.e., Wait-list Control). Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires before and after the 8-week program, at which point study participation will end.

Conditions

• Psychological Distress
• Loneliness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Happify	An online platform for conveying techniques from positive psychology, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-08-01
• Primary completion: 2020-03-25
• Completion: 2020-03-25
• First posted: 2019-10-02
• Last updated: 2020-09-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States