The WISER Study: Web Based Methods for Enhancing Resilience

NCT ID: NCT05636072

Last Updated: 2025-03-17

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

8000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-11-01

Study Completion Date

2027-12-31

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Burnout

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Waitlist control group Randomized Control Design
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Treatment Immediately

Participants will engage in well-being tools immediately for 1-week.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

WISER

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants will engage in one or more positive psychology well-being tool(s).

Waitlist Control

Participants will wait 1 week to begin the well-being tools.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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WISER

Participants will engage in one or more positive psychology well-being tool(s).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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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.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Duke University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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John B Sexton, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Duke

Locations

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Duke University Health System

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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John B Sexton, PhD

Role: CONTACT

+1 919 681 4949

Kathryn C Adair, PhD

Role: CONTACT

+1 919 681 4949

Facility Contacts

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J. Bryan Sexton, PhD

Role: primary

919-681-4949

Kathryn Adair, PhD

Role: backup

+1 919 681 4949

References

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Seligman ME, Steen TA, Park N, Peterson C. Positive psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions. Am Psychol. 2005 Jul-Aug;60(5):410-21. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.60.5.410.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16045394 (View on PubMed)

Profit J, Adair KC, Cui X, Mitchell B, Brandon D, Tawfik DS, Rigdon J, Gould JB, Lee HC, Timpson WL, McCaffrey MJ, Davis AS, Pammi M, Matthews M, Stark AR, Papile LA, Thomas E, Cotten M, Khan A, Sexton JB. Randomized controlled trial of the "WISER" intervention to reduce healthcare worker burnout. J Perinatol. 2021 Sep;41(9):2225-2234. doi: 10.1038/s41372-021-01100-y. Epub 2021 Aug 9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34366432 (View on PubMed)

Adair KC, Kennedy LA, Sexton JB. Three Good Tools: Positively reflecting backwards and forwards is associated with robust improvements in well-being across three distinct interventions. J Posit Psychol. 2020;15(5):613-622. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2020.1789707. Epub 2020 Jul 9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34295357 (View on PubMed)

Sexton JB, Adair KC, Cui X, Tawfik DS, Profit J. Effectiveness of a bite-sized web-based intervention to improve healthcare worker wellbeing: A randomized clinical trial of WISER. Front Public Health. 2022 Dec 8;10:1016407. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1016407. eCollection 2022.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 36568789 (View on PubMed)

Sexton JB, Adair KC. Well-Being Outcomes of Health Care Workers After a 5-Hour Continuing Education Intervention: The WELL-B Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Sep 3;7(9):e2434362. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.34362.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 39298170 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Pro00063703

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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