Clinical trial NCT05738122: Evaluating the Efficacy of a 60-day Emotion Regulation Journal
Official title: Evaluating the Efficacy of a 60-day Self-guided Emotion Regulation Journal
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Health
Emotional Regulation
Lead sponsor: University of Victoria
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Switch Research
name: Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems
First posted: 2023-02-21
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 19
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Participants randomized to the intervention group will receive a physical copy of the 60-day emotion regulation journal during the baseline meeting. Participants will also be introduced the purpose of the journal and its intended usage (i.e., daily journaling). Intervention participants will not be offered guidance or feedback on the journal after these initial instructions, in order to emulate an ad libitum usage. Control group participants will not receive any contact with the researchers outside of the planned questionnaires and to receive their journal at the two-month timepoint.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* (1) being 18+ years old (2) being fluent in English, (3) currently living in the Greater Victoria area, (4) self-reporting no previously diagnosed mental illness or psychiatric conditions, and (5) scoring a mean of \<4.6 on the Cognitive Reappraisal, and mean of \>3.14 on the Expressive Suppression subscales of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (based on previous mean data)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Scoring a mean of ≥4.6 on the Cognitive Reappraisal or a mean of ≤3.14 on the Expressive Suppression subscales of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, currently receiving or seeking therapy for a mental illness, a current or previous diagnosis of mental illness, or self-identifying as neurodivergent.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Participant Emotion Regulation
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-months, 60 day exit interview, 90 days follow up
measure: Participant Emotion Regulation
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-months, 60 day exit interview, 90 days follow up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Adherence
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-months
measure: Experience using journal
timeFrame: 60 days
measure: Demographics
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Mental Health
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-months, and 3-month follow up for intervention group
measure: Subjective Well-Being
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-months, and 3-month follow up for intervention group
measure: Self-Compassion
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-months, and 3-month follow up for intervention group
measure: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-month, and 3-month follow up for intervention group
measure: Screen Time
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-month, and 3-month follow up for intervention group
measure: Sleep
timeFrame: 2 weeks, 1-month, 2-month, and 3-month follow up for intervention group
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Victoria
country: Canada
facility: Behavioural Medicine Lab - University of Victoria
state: British Columbia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Victoria
name: Ryan E Rhodes, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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