Recruiting

Web Based Methods

Sponsor:

Duke University

Code:

NCT05636072

Conditions

Burnout

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

WISER

Study Details

Brief summary:

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.

Conditions

Burnout

Study ID

NCT05636072

Start date

Nov 1, 2022

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

Dec 31, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 31, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

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.

Study Design

Enrollment

8000 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Treatment Immediately

Participants will engage in well-being tools immediately for 1-week.

no intervention: Waitlist Control

Participants will wait 1 week to begin the well-being tools.

Interventions

WISER

Participants will engage in one or more positive psychology well-being tool(s).

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in Emotional Exhaustion as measured by the 5-item Emotional Exhaustion Scale [ Time Frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

John B Sexton, PhD

+1 919 681 4949bryan.sexton@duke.edu

Kathryn C Adair, PhD

+1 919 681 4949Kathryn.C.Adair@duke.edu

Locations

Duke University Health System

Recruiting

Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27707

Contacts

J. Bryan Sexton, PhD

919-681-4949Bryan.Sexton@duke.edu

Kathryn Adair, PhD

+1 919 681 4949Kathryn.C.Adair@duke.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Duke University

Last update posted

Apr 8, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Keywords

  • Burnout
  • Well-being
  • Behavioral Health

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Duke University on 2026-04-08.