Pleasant Events and Moods: A Time-Series Analysis

描述（由申请人提供）：与非照顾者相比，痴呆患者的家庭照顾者中有不成比例的人出现抑郁症状。 许多照顾者通过参加心理社会干预来寻求帮助。 结合Lewinsohn的抑郁症理论的行为干预似乎有效的家庭照顾者。Lewinsohn的理论假设，从事更愉快的活动可以减少一个人的负面影响体验。然而，护理人员可能会发现干预措施过于耗时，因此不会注册或辍学。该项目提出了一种创新的干预措施，这种干预措施具有时间效率，并且基于已经证明可以有效减少负面情绪的理论。使用时间序列分析，详细的反馈和建议，将提供有关个人模式之间的关系，从事愉快的活动和积极和消极的情绪。在两周内，60名护理人员将完成评估他们参与愉快活动和积极和消极影响体验的措施。这些措施将每天完成四次。将分析数据的时间关系。在数据收集之后，所有参与者中的一半将被随机分配，以获得关于感兴趣的变量之间的时间关系的即时反馈和建议。其余参与者将不会收到任何反馈。 所有参与者将接受一个月的随访，以确定那些接受详细反馈的人是否经历了更少的负面情绪和更多的积极情绪。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A disproportionate number of family caregivers of dementia patients experience depressive symptoms compared to non-caregivers. Many caregivers seek help by enrolling in psychosocial interventions. Behavioral interventions incorporating Lewinsohn's theory of depression appear effective with family caregivers. Lewinsohn's theory postulates that engaging in more pleasurable activities reduces one's experience of negative effect. However, caregivers can find interventions too time-consuming and consequently do not enroll or dropout. This project proposes an innovative intervention that is time-efficient and based upon theories already shown to be effective at reducing negative emotions. Using time-series analysis, detailed feedback and advice will be provided regarding individual patterns in the relations between engaging in pleasurable activities and both positive and negative moods. Across two weeks, 60caregivers will complete measures assessing their engagement in pleasurable activities and experience of positive and negative affect. These measures will be completed four times daily. Data will be analyzed for temporal relations. After data collection, half of all participants will be randomly assigned to receive instant feedback and advice about the temporal relations between variables of interest. The remaining participants will receive no feedback. All participants will receive a one-month follow-up to determine if those receiving detailed feedback experience fewer negative emotions and more positive emotions.