Study Moskowitz et al. (2019): study US 2014

Public

Dementia caregivers, USA, 2014-2016

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 77

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Positive Emotion Intervention

Our Classification

Distribution

1: T0 N = 86, T1 N = 77,
0: T0 N = 84, T1 N = 78

Operationalization

Participants were randomly assigned to:
1. Positive Emotion Intervention.
Six weekly sessions in which a facilitator taught participants a set of eight emotion regulation skills: (a) noticing and capitalizing positive events and gratitude, (b) mindfulness, (c) positive reappraisal, (d) personal strengths and attainable goal setting, (e) acts of kindness. In the final session of the intervention, facilitators worked with participants to plan continued practice of the skills and they provided suggestions for making engagement in the skills an ongoing habit.
0: CONTROL EMOTION REPORTING/ WAITLIST CONDITION.
control group
participants were asked to complete a daily emotion survey for 6 weeks and then crossed over into the intervention condition

Observed Relation with Happiness