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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
60 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2016-12-05
2018-05-26
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Awe Walk Condition
Participants were instructed to take at least one (\~15 minute) walk per week for 8 consecutive weeks. Participants were told to seek the experience of feeling awe. Participants were told to keep a fairly light to moderate pace and were encouraged to walk alone and without interruption from a mobile device.
Awe Walk
To examine the effect of weekly awe walks in cognitively healthy older adults.
Control Walk Condition
Participants were instructed to take at least one (\~15 minute) walk per week for 8 consecutive weeks. Participants were told to keep a fairly light to moderate pace and were encouraged to walk alone and without interruption from a mobile device.
Control Walk
To examine the effect of weekly walks in cognitively healthy older adults.
Interventions
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Awe Walk
To examine the effect of weekly awe walks in cognitively healthy older adults.
Control Walk
To examine the effect of weekly walks in cognitively healthy older adults.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Reliant informant with frequent contact with participant who is available to provide observations of participant
* Fluent in English or Spanish
* Age: 40 and above
* Able to complete baseline assessments
* Education or work history sufficient to exclude mental retardation
* Physically acceptable for this study as confirmed by medical history, physical exam, neurological exam and clinical tests
Exclusion Criteria
* Korsakoff encephalopathy
* Active substance abuse
* Brain tumor
* Active neoplastic disease (skin tumors other than melanoma are not exclusionary)
* Parkinson's disease
* Multiple sclerosis (untreated)
* Sleep apnea
* History of clinically significant stroke
* Current evidence or history in the past 2 years of epilepsy, focal brain lesion, cancer, steroid use, or DSM-IV criteria for any major psychiatric disorder including psychosis, major depression, bipolar disorder, alcohol or substance abuse
* Blindness, deafness, language difficulties or any other disability which may prevent the participant from participating or cooperating in the protocol
40 Years
90 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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University of California, Berkeley
OTHER
University of California, San Francisco
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Virginia E Sturm, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of California, San Francisco
Locations
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UCSF Memory and Aging Center
San Francisco, California, United States
Countries
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References
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Keltner D, Haidt J. Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion. Cogn Emot. 2003 Mar;17(2):297-314. doi: 10.1080/02699930302297.
Kaup AR, Byers AL, Falvey C, Simonsick EM, Satterfield S, Ayonayon HN, Smagula SF, Rubin SM, Yaffe K. Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults and Risk of Dementia. JAMA Psychiatry. 2016 May 1;73(5):525-31. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0004.
Williams JE, Paton CC, Siegler IC, Eigenbrodt ML, Nieto FJ, Tyroler HA. Anger proneness predicts coronary heart disease risk: prospective analysis from the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study. Circulation. 2000 May 2;101(17):2034-9. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.101.17.2034.
Fredrickson BL, Cohn MA, Coffey KA, Pek J, Finkel SM. Open hearts build lives: positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2008 Nov;95(5):1045-1062. doi: 10.1037/a0013262.
Stellar JE, John-Henderson N, Anderson CL, Gordon AM, McNeil GD, Keltner D. Positive affect and markers of inflammation: discrete positive emotions predict lower levels of inflammatory cytokines. Emotion. 2015 Apr;15(2):129-33. doi: 10.1037/emo0000033. Epub 2015 Jan 19.
Diener E, Chan MY. Happy people live longer: Subjective well-being contributes to health and longevity. .Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being 2011;3:1-43
Levenson RW, Ascher E, Goodkind M, McCarthy M, Sturm V, Werner K. Chapter 25 Laboratory testing of emotion and frontal cortex. Handb Clin Neurol. 2008;88:489-98. doi: 10.1016/S0072-9752(07)88025-0. No abstract available.
Emmons RA, McCullough ME. Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2003 Feb;84(2):377-89. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.84.2.377.
Provided Documents
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Document Type: Study Protocol
Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan
Related Links
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Greater Good Science Center
Global Brain Health Institute
Other Identifiers
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16-20001
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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