What Are the Ingredients for the Best Form of the Best Possible Self (BPS) Intervention?

NCT04753801 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: BestBPS
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 181
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to determine the relevant 'ingredients' to make the best possible self (BPS) intervention most efficacious and test whether the BPS's efficacy can be enhanced by including mindfulness aspects.

Conditions

Healthy Participants

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in emotions (PANAS)

  Change scores are calculated for positive and negative sum scores (post- minus pre-scores; pre-scores will be used as a covariate).

  Change from pre (baseline) to post scores (approx. 30 minutes later)

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change in state optimism ratings

  Change from pre (baseline) to post scores (approx. 30 minutes later)

• Change in emotional responses to imagery of neutral, pleasant and aversive narrative scripts

  Change from pre (baseline) to post scores (approx. 30 minutes later)]

Study Arms (5)

Best Possible Self (writing only)

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants are asked to think and write about their best possible future self (15 min).

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagination

Best Possible Self (writing+imagining)

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants are asked to think and write about their best possible future self (15 min) and, then to imagine their positive future (5 min).

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagination

Best Possible Self (writing+mindfulness)

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants are asked to think and write about their best possible future self (15 min) and subsequently engage in a brief mindfulness sequence (5 min).

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagination

Best Possible Self (writing+recall)

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants are asked to think and write about their best possible future self (15 min) and subsequently engage in a brief recall imagination task about the past two days (5 min).

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagination

Writing about the past

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants are asked to think and write about activities of the past two days (15 min).

Behavioral: Thinking, writing and imagination

Interventions

Thinking, writing and imagination BEHAVIORAL

All participants are asked to take some time to think and write about the respective intervention group's content. In some groups (after the writing exercise (approx. 15min)), participants are also asked to imagine that content or engage in a mindfulness activity or recall task for about 5 minutes.

Best Possible Self (writing only); Best Possible Self (writing+imagining); Best Possible Self (writing+mindfulness); Best Possible Self (writing+recall); Writing about the past

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• fluent in the German language
• access to a computer/tablet/smartphone with audio output/headphones

You may not qualify if:

• not willing to take part in an online-intervention (duration: 60 minutes)
• no access to a computer/tablet/smartphone with audio output/headphones

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Philipps University Marburg: lead

Study Sites (1)

Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg

Marburg, 35032, Germany

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Millstein RA, Chung WJ, Hoeppner BB, Boehm JK, Legler SR, Mastromauro CA, Huffman JC. Development of the State Optimism Measure. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2019 May-Jun;58:83-93. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2019.04.002. Epub 2019 Apr 4.

  PMID: 31026732 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Winfried Rief, Prof.

  Philipps University Marburg

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 9, 2021
• First Posted: February 15, 2021
• Study Start: February 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: March 27, 2021
• Study Completion: March 31, 2021
• Last Updated: August 7, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-08

Locations

DE (1)