Status:
COMPLETED
Prosocial Behavior Can Safeguard Mental Health and Foster Emotional Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lead Sponsor:
University of Toronto
Conditions:
Happiness
Anxiety
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdown measures have made mental health a pressing public health concern. Acts that focus on benefiting others-known as prosocial behaviors-offer one promi...
Detailed Description
This study is intended to be published as a registered report. The details of the study design are likely to change somewhat during the review process. However, below is the current plan: The investi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Canadian and American respondents from the Amazon Mechanical Turk
Exclusion
- Respondents will be excluded from the study if any of the following apply:
- A respondent completes the baseline study unrealistically quickly. We measure response speed using the average number seconds spent on each survey item (seconds per item, or SPI). We judge a response to be unrealistically fast if its SPI value is less than 1. SPI calculations will exclude optional items.
- A respondent does not complete at least half of the items in the baseline survey.
- A respondent provides off-topic, non-sensical (e.g., random or gibberish words), or non-English responses to an open-ended question in the baseline survey. The open-ended question follows a dictator game (that is not part of the pre-registered portion of the study) and asks respondents what they hoped to accomplish by acting as they did during the dictator game. The specific nature of this question will make it straightforward to detect off-topic responses. A comment must be judged as off-topic, non-sensical, or non-English by two members of the research team to be excluded.
- A respondent does not agree to continue with the study when asked if they wish to continue taking part in the study at the end of the baseline study, or in private correspondence with the researchers.
- A respondent completes the baseline study using an IP address from outside Canada or the United States, or that appears to originate from a VPS or other suspicious source.
- Technical difficulties prevent a respondent from completing the baseline study.
- Because obtain sufficient power to detect effects is a central aim of this study, the investigators will replace respondents who are removed for reasons 1-5 in a rolling fashion. In the case of technical failure (#6), the first approach will be to resolve the issue and administer the baseline survey to the same participant. If this is not possible, a replacement will be recruited.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 31 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 4 2021
Estimated Enrollment :
1328 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04517006
Start Date
January 31 2021
End Date
April 4 2021
Last Update
May 26 2021
Active Locations (1)
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1
Online, Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2J4