Couples Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Effects of Relational Letter Writing in Couples Wellbeing: A Mixed-Method Approach
The main objective of this research is to explore the relational letter writing technique as an intervention for improving couples' relational well-being. This is a two-arm superiority randomized clinical trial. Sixty-eight couples will be monitored before, during, and after the intervention. To observe the effect of the relational letter, scores of couples who are in the intervention arm and control arm will be compared (between groups) as well as pre-post scores (within-group). The content of the letter writing will be qualitatively analyzed to explore the reconstruction of their ethical values. Results from both methods will be integrated in order to get an in-depth perspective of the newly developed intervention. It is expected to increase the array of available techniques to help couples improve their individual and relational well-being.
Status | Not yet recruiting |
Enrollment | 68 |
Est. completion date | May 31, 2023 |
Est. primary completion date | December 31, 2022 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Couples willing to participate in a relationship enhancing intervention - Couples should have been living together at least for 12 months Exclusion Criteria: - Couples who are currently receiving any kind of psychotherapy - Participants presenting severe psychological disorders (Psychosis, substance abuse, major depression) - Presence of intimate partner violence or abuse - Participants presenting cognitive impairment or disability impeding them from writing or answering written information - High-conflicted couples as measured by the DAS (Scores below 70) |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change in Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) | The change of relational well-being will be evaluated with DAS (Spanier 1976, 2001), which is developed to provide a global measure of relational satisfaction of each member, has 32 items with 5-point, 6-point, 7-point Likert scales as well as two dichotomous items. Scores range from 0 to 151, higher scores indicating more dyadic adjustment. | The change of relational wellbeing will be evaluated for a week before the intervention (baseline), after the first session of the interview, and with follow-ups (right after the intervention, 2 weeks, and 3 months after the intervention). | |
Primary | Perceived Relational Change | Single item measure, 7-point likert scale measuring perceived change in their relationship as a result fo the intervention | Perceived relational change will be administrated at post intervention, 2 weeks and 3 months after the intervention | |
Secondary | Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - Outcome Measure Spanish version (CORE-OM) | Individual wellbeing will be evaluated with CORE-OM (trujillo et al., 2016). This is a brief measure of individual well-being with 34 items with 6-point Likert-type scale ranging from 0 (Not at all) to 4 (Most or all the time). It covers four subscales: well-being (four items), problems/symptoms (12 items), life functioning (12 items), and risk to self and others (six items). | Individual wellbeing will be evaluated for a week before the intervention (baseline), after the first session of the interview, and with follow-ups (right after the intervention, 2 weeks, and 3 months after the intervention). | |
Secondary | Change in Global Measure of Relational Satisfaction (GMRS) | The change of relational satisfaction will be evaluated with GMRS (Byers 2005) which is a six-item self-report questionnaire that measures an individual's relationship satisfaction with his/her current partner. Questions are 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 7, minimum and maximum scores are 6 and 42, respectively, and lower scores indicate lower satisfaction in the relationship. | The change of relationship satisfaction will be evaluated a week before the intervention (baseline), after the first and second session of the interview, and with follow-ups (right after the intervention, 2 weeks, and 3 months after the intervention) | |
Secondary | Change in Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) | Change of Outcome Rating Scale (ORS; Duncan et al., 2005) is an ultra-brief self-report measure that is designed to evaluate session-to-session progress made in therapy in terms of four domains. Participants will respond to how they are doing individually (personal well-being), socially (work, school, friendships), interpersonally (family, close relationships), and overall (general sense of well-being). For each item, place a mark on a 10-cm line. The mark indicates a positive feeling if it is marked to the right and it indicates a negative feeling if it is marked to the left on the line for each of the domains. The highest score possible is 40. | Chance of session to session progress will be evaluated a week before the intervention (baseline), after the first and second session of the interview, and with follow-ups (right after the intervention, 2 weeks, and 3 months after the intervention). |
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