GratePic mHealth App Feasibility Study

GratePic mHealth 应用程序可行性研究

• 批准号: 9775971
• 负责人: Christopher Lawson Arrington
• 金额: $ 21.96万
• 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/9775971
• 关键词: Affect; Amaze; Behavior; Clinical; Control Groups; Development; Effectiveness; Emotions; Empirical Research; Environment; Evaluation; Exercise; Fatigue; Feasibility Studies; Feeling suicidal; Focus Groups; Fostering; Goals; Image; Individual; Intervention; Journals; Length; Life; Mobile Health Application; Multimedia; Outcome; Participant; Personal Satisfaction; Physiological; Process; Psychologist; Randomized; Recovery; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Social Behavior; Social Network; Societies; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Text; Well in self; Writing; blood pressure reduction; commercialization; depressive symptoms; design; effectiveness evaluation; effectiveness testing; evidence base; gratitude; immune function; improved; iterative design; psychologic; psychosocial; recruit; reduce symptoms; response; social; social relationships; technology development; usability

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.

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