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Brief title
Health condition
None. The target group for this study are people in the general population aged 18 years and older who suffer from reduced well-being and mild or moderate psychological complaints, partly as a result of the corona crisis.
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Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Mental well-being as measured by the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF).
Secondary outcome
Anxiety complaints, depressive complaints and stress complaints; gratitude; rumination and positive reappraisal
Background summary
The corona crisis has a negative impact on the mental well-being of the Dutch population. Gratitude exercises, in which conscious attention and appreciation is given to positive aspects of one's own life, can contribute to strengthening mental well-being and reducing mild and moderate psychological complaints. A recent study showed large lasting effects of a six-week gratitude intervention on well-being in people with reduced well-being and psychological complaints at the start. This gratitude intervention is now converted into an app and the current RCT will investigate the effectiveness of the use of this app on mental well-being in people who are negatively impacted by the corona crisis, compared to a waiting list control condition. The participants in the waiting list control group receive the intervention after the post-test (T1).
Study objective
Usage of the gratitude app leads to a significant increase in mental well-being compared to a waiting list control group.
Study design
Baseline (T0); post-test following intervention (T1); follow-up 14 weeks after start intervention (T2)
Intervention
The app consists of a 6-week structured intervention, in which participants do one gratitude exercise every week for at least 5 days, aimed at increasing gratitude. An exercise will take an average of 15 minutes a day.
Inclusion criteria
Age of 18 years or older; possession of an email address and smartphone or tablet with daily good access to the internet; willing to do a gratitude exercise of 15 minutes, five days a week for 6 weeks; sufficient command of the Dutch.
Exclusion criteria
severe anxiety symptoms: a score of 15 or higher on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 items (GAD-7); moderate or severe depressive symptoms: a score of 15 or higher on the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).
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NTR-new | NL8856 |
Other | EC of the Faculty of BMS, University of Twente : 201071 |