Clinical trial NCT02782611: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement
Official title: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Happiness
Keywords: Happiness
Subjective Well-Being
Psychological Flourishing
Well-Being
Health
Behavioral Change
Life Satisfaction
Affect
Emotion
Goals
Meaning in Life
Lead sponsor: University of Virginia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of British Columbia
First posted: 2016-05-25
Enrollment: 154
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 25
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief 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.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants ages 25 to 75

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major Depression

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Satisfaction With Life
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline in Positive Affect
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline in Negative Affect
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline in Meaning in Life
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline in Thriving
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Positive and Negative Memories Generated by Participants
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Positive Behaviors
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Satisfaction With Life
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Positive Affect
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Negative Affect
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Negative Behaviors
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Healthy Behaviors
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Perceived Stress
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Depression
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Self-Esteem
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Psychological Need Satisfaction: Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Body Mass Index: BMI
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Blood Pressure
timeFrame: Baseline, 3, 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Charlottesville
country: United States
facility: University of Virginia
state: Virginia
city: Kelowna
country: Canada
facility: University of British Columbia
state: British Columbia
Study officials:
References:
citation: Kushlev K, Heintzelman SJ, Lutes LD, Wirtz D, Kanippayoor JM, Leitner D, Diener E. Does Happiness Improve Health? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychol Sci. 2020 Jul;31(7):807-821. doi: 10.1177/0956797620919673. Epub 2020 Jun 24.