Efficacy of Three Online Well-Being Programs to Improve Work-Related Outcomes

Happify

Status: Completed

Conditions: Well-being

Treatments: Behavioral: Happify

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT03306654

2.5

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will be randomly assigned between three well-being programs, and assessed with questionnaires before and after the 8-week program, as well as 1-month after the end of the program.

Full description

Participants will be randomly assigned between three different well-being programs, with each program lasting 8-weeks and taking place on a simplified research version of the Happify platform. Well-being programs include the unchanged Happify platform, a version of the Happify platform that is designed to engage with specific activities but does not aim to promote positive emotion or reduce negative emotion (i.e., Placebo condition), and a version of the Happify platform that encourages thinking about well-being through quizzes and polls without providing any instructions for promotion (i.e., Wait-list Control). Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires before and after the 8-week program, as well as a 1-month follow-up questionnaire after the program is complete, at which point study participation will end.

Enrollment: 6,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• No prior experience on the Happify platform (new user registration)
• Full-time employment

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6,000 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Unchanged Happify

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants use Happify as it is currently available to consumers on the main site, including all engagement elements. Users may access a wide variety of 4-week programs and use them in any way they desire for the entire study period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Happify

Active control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants complete a Happify program that is designed to engage with specific activities, but that does not aim to promote positive emotion or reduce negative emotion. Participants gain access to 8 weeks worth of content, but may repeat the content as often as they like in the follow-up period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Happify

Distraction condition

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Participants complete a series of quizzes and polls on Happify designed to engage them in thinking about well-being topics, but without giving any specific instructions for how to promote well-being. Participants gain access to 8 weeks worth of content, but may repeat the content as often as they like in the follow-up period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Happify