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NCT Number: NCT05636072

The WISER Study: Web Based Methods for Enhancing Resilience

This is a research study to find out if web-based resilience tools can increase well-being.

Enrolled participants will try out one or more brief positive psychology tools. The tools ask participants to reflect on positive experiences or to do an activity (e.g., write a letter of gratitude). The study is entirely online and participants will be prompted to participate via email or text messages.

The study team is interested in the effects of the tools on stress, depression, and burnout in adults. A set of brief surveys are administered before and after using the tool, and again at follow-up periods (e.g., 1, 3, 6 and 12 months). Surveys are collected electronically using the secure, HIPAA-compliant survey software.

There is no direct benefit to participants for participating in this research study aside from the potential to experience improvements in well-being. Risks are minimal and include the potential to feel emotional or psychological distress when asked questions related to burnout.

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Key information

Conditions

Burnout Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Burnout, Psychological Stress, Psychological

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Adults 18 and over are considered eligible for the study. A sub-sample will include employees (including but not limited to frontline caregivers, support staff and management) of the Duke University Health System, as well as external health systems. All participants will be invited to participate in one or more of the online tools. The investigators will allow the participation of any clinical areas/healthcare worker groups whose leaders express interest in building resilience. The investigators are targeting healthcare workers for recruitment in the study, but adults 18+ are eligible to participate in any of these tools. Identification as a healthcare worker or not is part of data collection in every tool.

Exclusion criteria

  • Adults who are not proficient in English, do not have basic computer skills, or who have prohibitive vision or hearing disabilities will be excluded from this study as they will be incapable of full participation in the intervention and/or the survey process.

Treatment and study plan

WISER

Behavioral

Participants will engage in one or more positive psychology well-being tool(s).

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in Emotional Exhaustion as measured by the 5-item Emotional Exhaustion Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups

    Survey scores are measured on a 1-5 Likert-like agreement scale.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in Emotional Recovery as measured by the 4-item Emotional Recovery Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups

    Survey scores are measured on a 1-5 Likert-like agreement scale.

  2. Change in Work-life Integration as measured by the 7-item Work-life Integration Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups

    Survey scores are measured with a 1-4 frequency of behaviors scale.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

John B Sexton, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+1 919 681 4949

Kathryn C Adair, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+1 919 681 4949

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Duke University

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Dec 5, 2022
Registry last updated
Apr 8, 2026

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