Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement

Happiness Clinical Trial

— ENHANCE  

Official title:

Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02782611
• Other study ID #: 20160044
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 7, 2016
• Last updated: April 11, 2018
• Start date: April 2016
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: April 2018
• Source: University of Virginia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Over the past several decades, a new science of subjective well-being has produced insights into the factors that make people happy—from cultivating strong relationships to pursuing the right goals. Drawing on these empirical findings, the investigators created a comprehensive 12-week intervention program, ENHANCE: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement. The investigators multimodal program is designed to teach people essential skills in order to produce sustainable changes in behavior and, as a result, long-lasting increases in happiness. To test the effectiveness of ENHANCE, the investigators designed a six-month randomized clinical trial. Participants will be assigned to an active treatment group or a waiting group control. They will complete baseline assessments, and follow-up assessment at three and six months after the start of the intervention. These assessments will contain measures of subjective well-being and objective measures of health, as well as a variety of psychological mediators (e.g., psychological needs) and moderators (e.g. personality). The investigators will thus be able to explore not only whether ENHANCE works to improve well-being, but also why and how ENHANCE works.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 154
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: June 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 25 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants ages 25 to 75

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major Depression

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Happiness

Intervention

Behavioral:
• ENHANCE: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement
ENHANCE is a skill-based intervention to teach people a wide variety of strategies that have been shown to boost happiness. Each session of ENHANCE follows a similar format targeted to address three central goals. First, in each session, participants will complete an active learning module designed to educate participants about one of the ten overarching topics featured in this program (e.g., goals, close relationships). Next, participants will engage in activities that put these principles into practice. Finally, this program is designed to encourage a skill-building mindset by helping participants develop habits to integrate these principles into maintained activity in their daily lives moving forward.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	University of British Columbia	Kelowna	British Columbia
United States	University of Virginia	Charlottesville	Virginia

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Virginia	University of British Columbia

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline Satisfaction With Life	Satisfaction With Life Scale	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Primary	Change from Baseline in Positive Affect	Scale of Positive and Negative Experience: SPANE	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Primary	Change from Baseline in Negative Affect	Scale of Positive and Negative Experience: SPANE	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Primary	Change from Baseline in Meaning in Life	Meaning in Life Questionnaire	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Primary	Change from Baseline in Thriving	Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Positive and Negative Memories Generated by Participants	In this task, participants list as many positive (and then negative) life events and then as many negative life events as they can in three minutes. Relative quantities of positive to negative life events that are listed demonstrate accessibility of positive and negative memories, which is an indicator of Subjective Well-Being.	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Positive Behaviors	Peers will be asked to evaluate the participant on how frequently they engaged in a series of affect-related displays over the past week: smiling, laughing,	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Satisfaction With Life		Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Positive Affect		Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Negative Affect		Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Negative Behaviors	Peers will be asked to evaluate the participant on how frequently they engaged in a series of affect-related displays over the past week: crying, frowning, complaining, and criticizing.	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Healthy Behaviors	Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Perceived Stress	Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Depression	Patient Health Questionnaire-9	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Self-Esteem	Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Psychological Need Satisfaction: Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness	Need Satisfaction Scale	Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Body Mass Index: BMI		Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary	Change from Baseline Blood Pressure		Baseline, 3, 6 months