Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement (ENHANCE)

University of Virginia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Happiness

Treatments: Behavioral: ENHANCE: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02782611

20160044

Details and patient eligibility

About

Over the past several decades, a new science of subjective well-being has produced insights into the factors that make people happy-from cultivating strong relationships to pursuing the right goals. Drawing on these empirical findings, the investigators created a comprehensive 12-week intervention program, ENHANCE: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement. The investigators multimodal program is designed to teach people essential skills in order to produce sustainable changes in behavior and, as a result, long-lasting increases in happiness. To test the effectiveness of ENHANCE, the investigators designed a six-month randomized clinical trial. Participants will be assigned to an active treatment group or a waiting group control. They will complete baseline assessments, and follow-up assessment at three and six months after the start of the intervention. These assessments will contain measures of subjective well-being and objective measures of health, as well as a variety of psychological mediators (e.g., psychological needs) and moderators (e.g. personality). The investigators will thus be able to explore not only whether ENHANCE works to improve well-being, but also why and how ENHANCE works.

Enrollment: 154 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants ages 25 to 75

Exclusion criteria

• Major Depression

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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154 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

ENHANCE (Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement) is a 12-week program that includes an introductory session, 10 weekly sessions focusing on different happiness principles, and a final session focusing on integrating aspects of the program and continuing to practice these principles moving forward. Through completing this program, participants will gain an education on a wide-range of happiness principles and an arsenal of strategies for developing happiness boosting habits and skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: ENHANCE: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement

Waiting Group Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The waiting group control will complete the same assessments as the experimental group but without receiving the intervention.