Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement (ENHANCE)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02782611 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : May 25, 2016
Last Update Posted : April 13, 2018
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Happiness | Behavioral: ENHANCE: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 154 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement |
Study Start Date : | April 2016 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | June 2017 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | June 30, 2017 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Treatment
ENHANCE (Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement) is a 12-week program that includes an introductory session, 10 weekly sessions focusing on different happiness principles, and a final session focusing on integrating aspects of the program and continuing to practice these principles moving forward. Through completing this program, participants will gain an education on a wide-range of happiness principles and an arsenal of strategies for developing happiness boosting habits and skills.
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Behavioral: ENHANCE: Enduring Happiness and Continued Self-Enhancement
ENHANCE is a skill-based intervention to teach people a wide variety of strategies that have been shown to boost happiness. Each session of ENHANCE follows a similar format targeted to address three central goals. First, in each session, participants will complete an active learning module designed to educate participants about one of the ten overarching topics featured in this program (e.g., goals, close relationships). Next, participants will engage in activities that put these principles into practice. Finally, this program is designed to encourage a skill-building mindset by helping participants develop habits to integrate these principles into maintained activity in their daily lives moving forward. |
No Intervention: Waiting Group Control
The waiting group control will complete the same assessments as the experimental group but without receiving the intervention.
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- Change from Baseline Satisfaction With Life [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Satisfaction With Life Scale
- Change from Baseline in Positive Affect [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Scale of Positive and Negative Experience: SPANE
- Change from Baseline in Negative Affect [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Scale of Positive and Negative Experience: SPANE
- Change from Baseline in Meaning in Life [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Meaning in Life Questionnaire
- Change from Baseline in Thriving [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving
- Change from Baseline Positive and Negative Memories Generated by Participants [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]In this task, participants list as many positive (and then negative) life events and then as many negative life events as they can in three minutes. Relative quantities of positive to negative life events that are listed demonstrate accessibility of positive and negative memories, which is an indicator of Subjective Well-Being.
- Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Positive Behaviors [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Peers will be asked to evaluate the participant on how frequently they engaged in a series of affect-related displays over the past week: smiling, laughing,
- Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Satisfaction With Life [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]
- Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Positive Affect [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]
- Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Negative Affect [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]
- Change from Baseline Peer Reports of Negative Behaviors [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Peers will be asked to evaluate the participant on how frequently they engaged in a series of affect-related displays over the past week: crying, frowning, complaining, and criticizing.
- Change from Baseline Healthy Behaviors [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- Change from Baseline Perceived Stress [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
- Change from Baseline Depression [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Patient Health Questionnaire-9
- Change from Baseline Self-Esteem [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
- Change from Baseline Psychological Need Satisfaction: Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]Need Satisfaction Scale
- Change from Baseline Body Mass Index: BMI [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]
- Change from Baseline Blood Pressure [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3, 6 months ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 25 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
• Participants ages 25 to 75
Exclusion Criteria:
• Major Depression

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02782611
United States, Virginia | |
University of Virginia | |
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22904-4400 | |
Canada, British Columbia | |
University of British Columbia | |
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, V1V1V7 |
Responsible Party: | Kostadin Kushlev, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02782611 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
20160044 |
First Posted: | May 25, 2016 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | April 13, 2018 |
Last Verified: | April 2018 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | Yes |
Happiness Subjective Well-Being Psychological Flourishing Well-Being Health Behavioral Change |
Life Satisfaction Affect Emotion Goals Meaning in Life |