Promoting Wellbeing: The Five Ways to All Intervention

Summary

This project is funded by Stiftelsen Dam and is a cooperation between The Norwegian Council for Mental Health (NCMH) and PROMENTA research group at the University of Oslo. Low-cost and evidence-based health promoting public health tools are urgently needed in Norwegian municipalities, to meet both current and future challenges with mental health and wellbeing. The aim in this randomized controlled trail is to test if a shorter, 10 week web-based version (The Five Ways to All, "5WaysA"), of an already established course (Five Ways to Wellbeing course), can promote wellbeing and mastery in the general population. The principal investigator will investigate to what extend the effects are short-term and long-term (i.e., 10 weeks, 18 weeks and 12 months after starting to receive the 5WaysA intervention).

Conditions

• Wellbeing
• Health Attitude
• Quality of Life

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

5waysA Intervention

Web-based 10 week intervention, encouraging participants engaging in five potential health promoting activities: 1. Be active, 2. Take notice, 3. Keep learning, 4. Connect and 5. Give.

BEHAVIORAL

5waysA Active wait-list control

Writing activity log in the waiting time. Then, after five months and the writing of activity log, the participants get the web-based intervention and SMS massages, which encourage the participants to engage in five potential health promoting activities: 1. Be active, 2. Take notice, 3. Keep learning, 4. Connect and 5. Give.

BEHAVIORAL

5waysA Inactive wait-list control

No activity while the participants wait. After five months of waiting, the participants get the web-based intervention and SMS messages, which encourage participants engage in five potential health promoting activities: 1. Be active, 2. Take notice, 3. Keep learning, 4. Connect and 5. Give.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Norwegian Council for Mental Health

  collaborator OTHER

• The Dam Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Oslo

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Monica B Prydz, Cand.psychol · University of Oslos

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

110 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-03-04

Primary Completion

2023-02-24

Completion

2023-02-24

Countries

• Norway

Study Locations