Writing About Experiences and Health in Older Adults II
ConditionSocial Psychology
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 1
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age65+
SponsorUniversity of California, Los Angeles
About this trial
UCLA researchers looking for healthy older adults (aged 65+) to participate in a study investigating how writing about experiences can affect your brain and body.
Once a week for 6 weeks, participants will write about their experiences and fill out online questionnaires. Participants will also come to the UCLA campus to complete a neuroimaging session (fMRI), provide a blood spot sample, and fill out questionnaires 2 times: once prior to the 6-week writing period and once immediately after the 6-week writing period.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Healthy adults age 65 years and older
Disqualifiers
current smokers
active, uncontrolled medical disorders
chronic infection (e.g., Hepatitis C, HIV)
use of certain medications (steroid use, opioid use)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Writing Intervention
Treatment groups
200 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov