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Writing About Experiences and Health in Older Adults

NCT02472379 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 78

Last updated 2026-03-18

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Summary

UCLA researchers looking for healthy females (age 60+) to participate in a study investigating how writing about your experiences may be related to your health.

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 for blood draws and to fill out questionnaires 3 times: once prior to the 6-week writing period, once immediately after the 6-week period, and once 2-months after the writing period.

Conditions

  • Social Psychology

Interventions

OTHER

Writing: Group 2

Writing about experiences with familiar places, once a week for 6 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Writing: Group 1

Writing about experiences with familiar individuals in their lives, once a week for 6 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Naomi I. Eisenberger, Ph.D. · University of California, Los Angeles

  • Mona Moieni, M.A. · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2017-01-31
Completion
2017-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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