An interventional study of emotional disclosure and placebo writing in Healthy, sponsored by University Hospital Birmingham. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2009-05-12.
Sponsored by University Hospital Birmingham · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a randomized, controlled trial on the effect of emotional disclosure of traumatic life events on physical health. The hypothesis is that expression of emotions could possibly improve physical health.
University Hospital Birmingham is the lead sponsor of 32 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
writing about emotional events from the past
Behavioral: emotional disclosure
writing about how they spent their time the previous day
Behavioral: placebo writing
writing about emotional events from the past
writing about how they spent their time the previous day
health centre visits
Time frame: within 3 months
respiratory infections
Time frame: within 3 months
This study is completed, as verified in May 2009. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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