Examining the Role of Expressive Writing (EW) to Improve Resilience

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Conditions studied: Resilience

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a 6-week writing to heal seminar/workshop/class, Transform Your Life: Write to Heal, raises resilience scores as measured by the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale for people who have recently experienced an emotional or physical trauma. Eligible subjects will be adults who self-identify as having had a recent emotional upheaval or physical health challenge. Potential subjects will be recruited through the use of flyers, advertisements, and emails to the Duke Integrative Medicine email list. Subjects will complete pen and paper measures at baseline and immediately post-treatment, including: the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale, The 20-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, the 22-item Rumination Response Scale, and a baseline questionnaire. The investigators aim to target a sample of 30 completers by enrolling 37 participants. The risks of participation in this study are minimal, and include temporary sadness after the initial writing experience.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT02510898
Run by: Duke University
People needed: 39
Starts: 2016-01-01
Expected to finish: 2016-04-01
Last updated by the study team: 2019-03-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

They are at least 18 years of age.
They self-identify as having had a recent emotional upheaval or physical health challenge (within the past 12 months, but not within the past month).
a. Potential challenges include, but are not limited to: i. Death of spouse ii. Divorce iii. Marital separation iv. Death of a parent v. Job loss vi. Personal injury or critical illness vii. Death of a close personal friend viii. Retirement ix. Marriage x. Significant change in financial security
They are able to read and write in English.
They are able to attend 6 weekly sessions of the Transform Your Health: Write to Heal course held at Duke Integrative Medicine.
They are able and willing to provide informed consent.

You may not qualify if…

They are NOT at least 18 years of age.
They do NOT self-identify as having had a recent emotional upheaval or physical health challenge (within the past 12 months, but not within the past month).
They are NOT able to read and write in English.
They are NOT able to attend 6 weekly sessions of the Transform Your Health: Write to Heal course held at Duke Integrative Medicine.
They are NOT able and willing to provide informed consent.

Where it is running

Duke Integrative Medicine — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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