Job Related Stress
Conditions
Keywords
Satisfaction, Depression
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALThree Good Things
The treatment phase will last 3 weeks. However, participants will complete surveys at baseline and up to 6 months. 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.
BEHAVIORALWait list control arm and then Three Good Things
Surveys will be completed for 3 months prior to treatment and then after treatment.
Sponsors
University of Michigan
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS-SF) between the intervention and control group | Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months | This is a 10 item survey to measure positive and negative affect. Responses include; very slightly or not at all, a little, quite a bit, and extremely. Higher scores of Positive Affect (PA) subscale represent higher positive affect higher scores of Negative affect (NA) subscale represent higher negative affect. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in self-reported mental health | Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months | This is a 1 question item to assess participants mental health ( 1=Excellent 2=good 3=fair 4=poor). |
| Change in Gratitude using the Gratitude Adjective Checklist (GAC) | Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months | The GAC is a 3-item self-report measure of state gratitude in which participants select, (1) A little (2) Moderately, Quite a bit (4), and Extremely (5).The total score on GAC ranges from 3 to 15, with higher score indicating greater state gratitude. |
| Change in self-reported physical health | Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months | This is a 1 question item to assess participants physical health ( 1=Excellent 2=good 3=fair 4=poor). |
| Change in Satisfaction with Life Questionnaire | Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months | This is a 5 question questionnaire in which participants select from 7 responses that are given a 1-7 scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Scoring ranges from 5-35 where 20 = neutral (the higher the score the more satisfaction). |
| Change in the Hope Scale | Pre-Treatment (baseline), up to 6 months | This is a 12 item questionnaire in which participants select from answers that include 1=definitely false 2=mostly false 3=mostly true 4=definitely true. Scores range from 12-48 with higher scores indicating greater hope. |
| Change in depression using the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9) score | Pre-Treatment (baseline) to 6 months | PHQ-9 scores reflect depression severity. Participants will select responses that include 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day. Ranges in scores are from 0-27 (Scores: 0-4 none, 5-9 mild, 10-14 moderate, 15-19 moderately severe, 20-27 severe). |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed