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Participants
Start Date
December 19, 2018
Primary Completion Date
December 16, 2020
Study Completion Date
December 16, 2020
Value Affirmation and Future Selves Combination
Following the questionnaire, participants will complete a 10- to 15-minute writing exercise. In the control condition, they will be given a list of values, select two that are least important to them, then write about why those values might be important to others. Next, they will write a short letter to themselves in 2 weeks. In the treatment condition, they will be given a list of values, select two that are important to them, then write for about why those values are important to them and how they have played a role in their life. They will then write a short letter to themselves twenty years in the future.
Control writing exercise
In this sham comparator, participants will also write, however, the content of the writing exercise is different. Participants write for five minutes about what they did that day. Next, for five minutes, they write a letter to themselves next week.
Center for Inclusion Health, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh
Collaborators (1)
Allegheny Singer Research Institute (also known as Allegheny Health Network Research Institute)
OTHER
Gilead Sciences
INDUSTRY
University of Pittsburgh
OTHER
Allies for Health + Wellbeing
UNKNOWN
Center for Inclusion Health, Allegheny General Hospital
UNKNOWN
Metro Community Health Center
UNKNOWN
Stuart Fisk
OTHER