NCT04139005

Well-being and the HM App Pilot (WHAP) Study

Well-being and the Healthy Minds App Pilot (WHAP) Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 383 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

There is no single definition of well-being, but consensus exists that positive functioning beyond the absence of detrimental mental health symptoms is central. Building on related "eudaimonic" frameworks of psychological flourishing that identify qualities like environmental mastery, positive relations with others, and personal growth, this study targets brain-based skills that underlie the active cultivation of such qualities (e.g., regulating attention, empathic care, mental flexibility), and thus offers straightforward hypotheses about mechanisms of change. The Healthy Minds Program (HMP) is designed to promote and protect psychological well-being through sustainable skills training. The program is grounded in constituents of psychological well-being identified in empirical literature. HMP provides core content, with instruction administered through a curriculum of high-quality guided practices. HMP is based on research on eudaimonic well-being (e.g., environmental mastery, purpose) and brain-based skills that underlie these qualities (e.g., regulation of attention, mental flexibility). HMP practices address 4 constituents of well-being: awareness, connection, insight, and purpose. This pilot focuses on awareness, connection, and insight.

Conditions

• Well-being

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Awareness	The program foundation targets attention and awareness skills that are integral to many conceptions of mindfulness.
BEHAVIORAL	Connection	The Connection module targets skills underlying social connection, which refers to the sense of having close and positively experienced relationships with others in the social world.
BEHAVIORAL	Insight	The Insight module targets skills underlying dynamic self-inquiry and experiential self-knowledge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-15
• Primary completion: 2021-01-08
• Completion: 2021-01-08
• First posted: 2019-10-25
• Last updated: 2021-01-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States