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The WISER Study: Web Based Methods for Enhancing Resilience

Duke University · NCT05636072

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
8000
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
November 1, 2022
Record last updated
April 8, 2026

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What the study is about

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.

Being studied: WISER

Conditions: Burnout

Eligibility criteria

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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.

Recruiting US locations

  • Duke University Health System

    Durham, NC 27707

    Site contact: J. Bryan Sexton, PhD · 919-681-4949 · Bryan.Sexton@duke.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • John B Sexton, PhD · +1 919 681 4949 · bryan.sexton@duke.edu
  • Kathryn C Adair, PhD · +1 919 681 4949 · Kathryn.C.Adair@duke.edu
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