The Impact of Expressive Emotional Writing on Facilitating Grief Resolution in Adults With Spinal Cord Injury

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham

About this trial

The aim of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic benefits of a 10-week online coach-guided EEWP on psychosocial health among adults with SCI.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

None

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • expressive writing

    Behavioral

    A typical session will begin with the teaching artist (i.e., writing coach) introducing a new writing theme. Participants will have at least 20 minutes to write, and each session will include post-writing reflections and sharing, an undirected supportive interaction among participants.

Treatment groups

60 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Expressive writingExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Waitlist controlNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Grief and Loss Scale

a 9-item measure of an individual's emotional reactions or grief such as anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness, and despair in the past 7 days, using a 5-point scale: 1=never to 5=always. The scores range from 9 to 45. Higher scores reflect higher degree of grief and loss.

Time frame
baseline, 11 weeks, 3-month follow-up
2

Impact of Events Scale

a 6-item measure of an individual's distress related to different difficulties in the past 7 days, using a 5-point scale: 0=not at all to 4=extremely. The scores range from 0 to 24. Higher scores reflect greater distress.

Time frame
baseline, 11 weeks, 3-month follow-up
3

Emotional Distress - Depression

It is a part of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS). It is an 8-item measure of an individual's emotional distress (depression) in the past 7 days, using a 5-point scale: 1=never to 5=always. The scores range from 8 to 40. Higher scores reflect higher degree of emotional distress (depression)

Time frame
baseline, 11 weeks, 3-month follow-up
4

Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)

is a 10-item measure of frequency of an individual experiencing stress in the past month, using a 5-point scale: 1=never to 5=very often. Four positively stated items require reversed coding. The scores range from 10 to 50. Higher scores reflect higher frequency of experiencing stress.

Time frame
baseline, 11 weeks, 3-month follow-up

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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University of Alabama at Birmingham

Lead sponsor

National Endowment for the Arts, United States

Collaborator