GratePic mHealth App Feasibility Study

GratePic mHealth 应用程序可行性研究

• 批准号: 10304644
• 负责人: Christopher Lawson Arrington
• 金额: $ 5.2万
• 依托单位: GRATEPIC, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-27 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10304644
• 关键词: Affect; Empirical Research; Environment; Fatigue; Feasibility Studies; Feeling suicidal; Goals; Image; Individual; Intervention; Journals; Life; Mobile Health Application; Personal Satisfaction; Process; Research; Research Project Grants; Social Behavior; Social Network; Societies; Techniques; Text; Well in self; Writing; depressive symptoms; design; effectiveness evaluation; effectiveness testing; gratitude; psychologic; response

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of GratePic, a mobile health (mHealth) application dedicated to helping users enhance gratitude. A large body of empirical research indicates a strong association between gratitude and psychological well-being, to include: reduction in depressive symptoms, a decrease in suicidal ideations, an increased sense of meaning in life, and less aggressiveness with more pro-social behavior. The most common technique for increasing gratitude is the text gratitude journal, where individuals write down things for which they are grateful. While the traditional text gratitude journal is an accepted and proven technique for cultivating gratitude, there are significant limitations with this intervention. We propose that images are a better medium for the gratitude journal. GratePic is a gratitude journal of images– a social network where users can cultivate gratitude in their daily lives. GratePic combines a picture with gratitude in order to form a "gratepic"; an image representing appreciation for what is valuable and meaningful to the user. We will use a RCT design to assess the relationship between GratePic and gratitude, well-being, depressive symptoms, positive affect, gratitude fatigue, and user engagement. We expect images representing gratitude will elicit a strong positive response from the user, and we also expect the social network feature will enrich the gratitude journaling process for the user and provide a more engaging environment.

项目总结/摘要 该项目的目的是评估GratePic的有效性，GratePic是一个移动的健康（mHealth）应用程序，致力于 帮助用户增强感恩之心。大量的实证研究表明，感恩与 心理健康，包括：抑郁症状减少，自杀意念减少， 生活的意义，更少的攻击性，更多的亲社会行为。最常见的技术是增加 感恩是文本感恩日记，个人写下他们感激的事情。而传统 文本感恩日记是一种公认的和行之有效的培养感恩的技术，但它有很大的局限性。 干预我们建议，图像是一个更好的媒介，感恩日记。GratePic是一本关于感恩的图片日记- 一个社交网络，用户可以在日常生活中培养感恩之心。GratePic将图片与感恩结合在一起， 以形成“gratepic”;表示对用户有价值和有意义的事物的欣赏的图像。我们将使用RCT 旨在评估GratePic与感恩、幸福感、抑郁症状、积极情感、感恩之间的关系 疲劳和用户参与度。我们希望表示感激的图像会引起用户强烈的积极反应， 我们还希望社交网络功能将丰富用户的感恩日志过程，并提供更多 迷人的环境。