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Improving Mental Health and Well-Being Via Awe Walks

NCT03550144 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2022-03-22

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Summary

Awe is a powerful positive emotion that offsets negative emotion and fosters prosocial behavior. This study examined the effects of awe on health and well-being in healthy older adults. Half of the participants took a weekly "awe walk" while the other half took a weekly walk with no further instructions.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Awe Walk

To examine the effect of weekly awe walks in cognitively healthy older adults.

BEHAVIORAL

Control Walk

To examine the effect of weekly walks in cognitively healthy older adults.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Virginia E Sturm, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-05
Primary Completion
2017-12-10
Completion
2018-05-26

Countries

  • United States

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