NCT05524597

Writing About Experiences and Health in Older Adults II

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

UCLA researchers looking for healthy older adults (aged 65+) to participate in a study investigating how writing about experiences can affect your brain and body. 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 to complete a neuroimaging session (fMRI), provide a blood spot sample, and fill out questionnaires 2 times: once prior to the 6-week writing period and once immediately after the 6-week writing period.

Conditions

• Social Psychology

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Writing Intervention	Participants will be asked to write about different kinds of experiences.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-13
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2022-09-01
• Last updated: 2026-03-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States