Three Good Things 2020: a Brief Text-based Wellness Intervention

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Job Related Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Wait list control arm and then Three Good Things; Behavioral: Three Good Things

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04676698

HUM00188399

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial will be open to all Michigan Medicine Department of Family Medicine faculty, resident, or staff.

The intervention will consist of asking participants the "3 Good Things" based on positive psychology theory. Participants will be asked to list three things that went well that day and to consider their role in these outcomes. Pre and post surveys will be completed to evaluate this intervention.

At the end of the trial the study team will also select a limited number of entries from participants to share some of the "good things" which people listed. These will be edited to ensure writer anonymity and participants will be informed of this plan in the study introduction.

Enrollment: 223 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Faculty, resident, or staff in the Michigan Medicine (MM) Department of Family Medicine

Exclusion criteria

• Not a member of Family Medicine at MM

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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223 participants in 2 patient groups

Three Good Things

Experimental group

Description:

Three times weekly for three weeks, participants will receive a text-based survey asking them to type or dictate "three good things."

Treatment:

Behavioral: Three Good Things

Waitlist Control Arm then Three Good Things

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will have surveys in the waiting period for 3 months and then be crossed over to the treatment arm Three Good Things.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wait list control arm and then Three Good Things