What Are the Ingredients for the Best Form of the Best Possible Self (BPS) Intervention?

Healthy Participants Clinical Trial

— BestBPS  

Official title:

What Are the Ingredients for the Best Form of the Best Possible Self (BPS) Intervention? Combining the BPS Intervention With Mindfulness

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04753801
• Other study ID #: BestBPS
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: February 2021
• Source: Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
• Contact: Stefan Salzmann, PhD
• Phone: +49 6421-2823350
• Email: stefan.salzmann[@]staff.uni-marburg.de
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to determine the relevant 'ingredients' to make the best possible self (BPS) intervention most efficacious and test whether the BPS's efficacy can be enhanced by including mindfulness aspects.

Description:

The best possible self (BPS) intervention is a brief positive psychology intervention to increase a person's positive affect and optimism. The BPS has been used in different forms (writing vs. imagining/visualizing vs. writing + imagining/visualizing the best possible self). However, it remains unclear which 'ingredients' are necessary to let the BPS unfold its effects. This online study aims to determine the relevant 'ingredients' to make the best possible self (BPS) intervention most efficacious. Since mindfulness interventions have recently indicated promising effects on positive and negative affect, another goal of this study is to test whether the BPS's efficacy can be enhanced by including aspects of mindfulness.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 180
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• fluent in the German language

• access to a computer/tablet/smartphone with audio output/headphones

Exclusion Criteria:

• not willing to take part in an online-intervention (duration: 60 minutes)

• no access to a computer/tablet/smartphone with audio output/headphones

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Participants

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Thinking, writing and imagination
All participants are asked to take some time to think and write about the respective intervention group's content. In some groups (after the writing exercise (approx. 15min)), participants are also asked to imagine that content or engage in a mindfulness activity or recall task for about 5 minutes.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg	Marburg

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Philipps University Marburg Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

References & Publications (1)

Millstein RA, Chung WJ, Hoeppner BB, Boehm JK, Legler SR, Mastromauro CA, Huffman JC. Development of the State Optimism Measure. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2019 May - Jun;58:83-93. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2019.04.002. Epub 2019 Apr 4. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in emotions (PANAS)	Change scores are calculated for positive and negative sum scores (post- minus pre-scores; pre-scores will be used as a covariate).	Change from pre (baseline) to post scores (approx. 30 minutes later)
Secondary	Change in state optimism ratings	State Optimism measure (SOM), 7 items (each item 1(strongly disagree)-5(strongly agree)). Change scores are calculated for positive and negative sum scores (post- minus pre-scores; pre-scores will be used as a covariate).	Change from pre (baseline) to post scores (approx. 30 minutes later)
Secondary	Change in emotional responses to imagery of neutral, pleasant and aversive narrative scripts	Nine narrative imagery scripts are used. Scenes included three neutral, standard social threat and positive/reward events. All scripts were developed according to the recommendations of Lang (1979). Participants are asked to rate the vividness of imagery (1= not vivid at all, 9= very vivid), the wish to avoid imagery (1 = no wish to avoid , 9 = strong wish to avoid imagery), their experienced anxiety (1= no anxiety, 9=very strong anxiety), displeasure (1 = pleasant, 9 = unpleasant), and emotional arousal (1 = relaxed, 9 = aroused) during imagery on a 9-point rating scale. Emotional responses are averaged per category.	Change from pre (baseline) to post scores (approx. 30 minutes later)]