The WISER Study: Web Based Methods for Enhancing Resilience

December 14, 2023 updated by: Duke University

This is a research study to find out if web-based resilience tools can increase well-being.

Enrolled participants will try out one or more brief positive psychology tools. The tools ask participants to reflect on positive experiences or to do an activity (e.g., write a letter of gratitude). The study is entirely online and participants will be prompted to participate via email or text messages.

The study team is interested in the effects of the tools on stress, depression, and burnout in adults. A set of brief surveys are administered before and after using the tool, and again at follow-up periods (e.g., 1, 3, 6 and 12 months). Surveys are collected electronically using the secure, HIPAA-compliant survey software.

There is no direct benefit to participants for participating in this research study aside from the potential to experience improvements in well-being. Risks are minimal and include the potential to feel emotional or psychological distress when asked questions related to burnout.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

8000

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

    • North Carolina
      • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27707

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adults 18 and over are considered eligible for the study. A sub-sample will include employees (including but not limited to frontline caregivers, support staff and management) of the Duke University Health System, as well as external health systems. All participants will be invited to participate in one or more of the online tools. The investigators will allow the participation of any clinical areas/healthcare worker groups whose leaders express interest in building resilience. The investigators are targeting healthcare workers for recruitment in the study, but adults 18+ are eligible to participate in any of these tools. Identification as a healthcare worker or not is part of data collection in every tool.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Adults who are not proficient in English, do not have basic computer skills, or who have prohibitive vision or hearing disabilities will be excluded from this study as they will be incapable of full participation in the intervention and/or the survey process.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Treatment Immediately
Participants will engage in well-being tools immediately for 1-week.
Participants will engage in one or more positive psychology well-being tool(s).
No Intervention: Waitlist Control
Participants will wait 1 week to begin the well-being tools.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in Emotional Exhaustion as measured by the 5-item Emotional Exhaustion Scale
Time Frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups
Survey scores are measured on a 1-5 Likert-like agreement scale.
Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in Emotional Recovery as measured by the 4-item Emotional Recovery Scale
Time Frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups
Survey scores are measured on a 1-5 Likert-like agreement scale.
Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups
Change in Work-life Integration as measured by the 7-item Work-life Integration Scale
Time Frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups
Survey scores are measured with a 1-4 frequency of behaviors scale.
Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: John B Sexton, PhD, Duke

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

November 1, 2022

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2025

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 23, 2022

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 23, 2022

First Posted (Actual)

December 5, 2022

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimated)

December 20, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 14, 2023

Last Verified

December 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Pro00063703

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

Only the research team will be accessing the data.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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