Writing About Experiences and Health in Older Adults

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Conditions studied: Social Psychology

In brief

UCLA researchers looking for healthy females (age 60+) to participate in a study investigating how writing about your experiences may be related to your health. Once a week for 6 weeks, participants will write about their experiences and fill out online questionnaires. Participants will also come to the UCLA campus for blood draws and to fill out questionnaires 3 times: once prior to the 6-week writing period, once immediately after the 6-week period, and once 2-months after the writing period.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02472379

Run by

University of California, Los Angeles

People needed

78

Starts

2015-10-01

Expected to finish

2017-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-18

Who can join

Age: 60 and older, up to 100. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Healthy adults 60 years and older

You may not qualify if…

• Following a structured telephone interview, participants with the following conditions will not be able to participate:
• current smokers
• active, uncontrolled medical disorders
• chronic infection (e.g., Hepatitis C, HIV)
• use of certain medications (e.g., hypnotic and psychotropic medication, steroid use, opioid use)
• psychiatric disorders (e.g., current major depression, bipolar disorder)
• body mass index (BMI) greater than 35
• Other exclusion criteria may apply.

Where it is running

• UCLA Clinical & Translational Research Center (CTRC) — Los Angeles, California, United States

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