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An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes
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Positive affect predicts improved glycemic control and longevity in adults with type 2 diabetes. We tested Developing Affective HeaLth to Improve Adherence (DAHLIA), a self-paced online intervention for type 2 diabetes that teaches positive affect skills such as savoring, gratitude, and acts of kindness. Participants (n = 49) were randomized to the five-week DAHLIA course or an emotion-reporting wait-list control. DAHLIA was understood and accepted by participants and showed good retention (78%). At post-intervention, DAHLIA participants showed a significantly greater decrease in depression than controls (−4.3 vs. +0.6 points on the CES-D, p = 0.05). Secondary analyses found that this effect was considerably stronger in intervention recipients recruited online than those recruited in person. Intervention recipients recruited online also showed significantly increased positive affect, reduced negative affect, and reduced perceived stress. There were no effects on measures of diabetes-specific efficacy or sense of burden, or preliminary measures of health behaviors. This successful feasibility and efficacy trial provides support for a larger trial focusing more specifically on health behavior.
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A 5-week self-paced online positive affect skills intervention (DAHLIA) reduced depressive symptoms in adults with type 2 diabetes compared with an emotion-reporting waitlist control. Effects were strongest among participants recruited online, with no significant effects on diabetes-specific efficacy, distress, or preliminary health behaviors.
Key findings
- Depression decreased significantly more in the DAHLIA condition than control: −4.3 vs. +0.6 points on the CES-D (β = −.21, p = .05), with intervention scores falling from 16.9 to 12.6.
- Exploratory analyses found the depression effect was considerably stronger for online-recruited participants: a 7.2-point reduction vs. 1.4 points for in-person recruits; adding recruitment type strengthened the condition effect (β = −.34, p = .02).
- Among online recruits, the intervention also significantly reduced perceived stress when recruitment type was included (βcond = −.43, p = .01) and increased retrospective positive affect (βcond = .32, p = .05), with marginal reductions in negative affect.
- No significant intervention effects were found for diabetes self-efficacy, diabetes distress, or health behaviors (all |β| < .19, p > .20); retention was 79% for final questionnaires and 72% met full-completer criteria.
Methods
- Randomized pilot trial: 53 adults with type 2 diabetes recruited in person from UCSF diabetes education classes (n = 28) or online via Craigslist (n = 25); 49 completed the emotion-reporting run-in and were randomized to the 5-week DAHLIA course or an emotion-reporting waitlist control, and 42 completed final questionnaires used in analyses.
- DAHLIA taught 8 positive affect/coping skills (e.g., savoring, gratitude, mindfulness, positive reappraisal, acts of kindness); participants practiced skills daily and completed daily emotion reports.
- Main analysis used regression models predicting Time 2 scores from Time 1 scores and treatment condition; follow-up models added recruitment type and recruitment-by-condition interactions. Outcomes included CES-D depression, PSS perceived stress, DES positive/negative affect, CIDS diabetes self-efficacy, DDS diabetes distress, and daily self-reported health behaviors.
Limitations
- The paper states it was a pilot not powered to detect downstream changes from psychological benefits to health behaviors or health outcomes, and it lacked long-term follow-up.
- The paper states future studies need a more potent control than the emotion-reporting waitlist, and that paid assessments increased per-participant cost and reduced generalizability.
- The paper notes the intervention was less effective in the in-person clinic sample, with a marginally significant suggestion of reduced diabetes self-efficacy in that subset; evident from the text, the small sample and multiple exploratory subgroup analyses make the online-vs-offline findings tentative.
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“Depression scores dropped significantly in the intervention condition compared to control (β = −.21, p = .05).”
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“At post-intervention, DAHLIA participants showed a significantly greater decrease in depression than controls (−4.3 vs. +0.6 points on the CES-D, p =.05).”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Primary Outcomes: Depression, Affect, and Perceived Stress
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“Exploratory analysis found that this effect did not appear for the subset of positive affect CES-D items (β = .05, p = .71), but only the negative items (β = −.25, p = .03).”
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“Scores in the intervention condition dropped by 4.3 points, from a mean of 16.9 – above the threshold for probable clinical depression – to 12.6, well below the threshold.”
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“The intervention did not have a significant effect on PSS scores (β = −.13, p = .31).”
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“There was no significant effect of condition for positive or negative affect, using either measure (|β| < .15, p > .20).”
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“The effect of the intervention was considerably stronger among participants recruited over the Internet compared to participants recruited in-person.”
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“The intervention appears to have been effective in a sample recruited online, but less so in a sample recruited in-person from a diabetes clinic.”
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“Baseline depression strongly predicted increases over time in negative affect (β =.74, p = .02) and, marginally, perceived stress (β =.52, p = .06) but did not predict positive affect (β −.13, p = .51).”
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“There are no obvious demographic differences that might explain these differential effects.”
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“Unexpectedly, we found that the intervention’s effects were on the negative, rather than the positive, CES-D items; there were also clearer effects on negative affect than on positive affect.”
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“The magnitude of the interaction between treatment group and recruitment method was effectively unchanged for positive affect (β changed from −.35 to −.43, new p = .09) or negative affect (β changed from .46 to .41, new p = .15).”
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“Control participants visited significantly more frequently than intervention participants (5.8 vs. 4.5 visits / week; F = 4.28, p = .05, η2 = .10)”
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“Neither the diabetes self-efficacy scale nor the diabetes distress scale showed any intervention effect (|β| < .09, p > .20).”
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“There were no effects on measures of diabetes-specific efficacy or sense of burden, or preliminary measures of health behaviors.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Diabetes-Specific Psychological Measures
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“The retrospective and averaged daily measures were strongly correlated with each other for both PA and NA and at both timepoints (rs ranging from .61 to .85, p < .001).”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Primary Outcomes: Depression, Affect, and Perceived Stress
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“Participants who dropped out generally cited time constraints; none raised issues with the content of the intervention.”
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“The interaction between treatment group and recruitment method was substantially reduced for perceived stress (β changed from .62 to .37, new p = .19).”
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“Adding recruitment group did not change these results (|β| < .13, p > .20), with the exception of a marginal interaction between condition and recruitment group for the CIDS (β = .−.45, p = .08).”
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“For positive affect, they improved according to the retrospective measure but not the averaged daily measures.”
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“Glucose testing was highly dichotomized, with nearly all participants scoring either 0 (never tested twice or more in a day) or 1 (tested twice or more every day; 88% scored 0 or 1 at baseline and 80% at post-intervention).”
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“DAHLIA was understood and accepted by participants and showed good retention (78%).”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Abstract
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“During post-study interviews, participants expressed that they understood the intervention content and found it sensitive and useful.”
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“Condition assignment was not related to either completing the final measures or reaching the full completer criterion (χ2 < .13, p> .72).”
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“When recruitment type was added, a significant effect of condition emerged for retrospective PA (βcond = .32, p = .05); a marginal interaction indicated that the intervention increased PA only for intervention participants recruited online (βinteraction = −.35, p = .10).”
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“For NA, the retrospective measure had a similar pattern of marginal effects (βcond = −.35, p = .08; βinteraction = .46, p = .10), indicating that the intervention reduced NA for participants recruited online but not offline. The averaged daily measure showed the same pattern, though the interaction fell short of significance (βcond = −.32, p = .09; βinteraction = .38, p = .13; see Figure 3).”
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“When recruitment type was added, a significant effect of condition emerged for retrospective PA (βcond = .32, p = .05); a marginal interaction indicated that the intervention increased PA only for intervention participants recruited online (βinteraction = −.35, p = .10).”
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“Frequency of visits was not affected by recruitment method and there was no interaction between recruitment method and condition. (F < .78, p > .38).”
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“Visit frequency was slightly higher in the emotion-reporting control condition, possibly due to the lower time requirement for control visits.”
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“In fact there was some suggestion of reduced diabetes self-efficacy among intervention participants recruited in person, though this was a marginally significant finding and may have occurred by chance.”
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“Recruitment method did not predict likelihood of reaching randomization (χ2 = .85, p = .36).”
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“However, participants recruited online were significantly more likely to complete the final measures (92% vs. 68%, χ2 = 4.68, p = .03) and to be full completers (88% vs. 57%, χ2 = 6.20, p = .01).”
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“Scores dropped significantly for participants in the intervention who were recruited online, but not those recruited offline (see Figure 2).”
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“Intervention recipients recruited online also showed significantly increased positive affect, reduced negative affect, and reduced perceived stress.”
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“In observational studies, positive affect is associated with an increased likelihood of physical activity[4,5,6,7] and healthy eating[5,8], as well as a lower likelihood of tobacco use [9,10].”
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“In observational studies, positive affect is associated with an increased likelihood of physical activity[4,5,6,7] and healthy eating[5,8], as well as a lower likelihood of tobacco use [9,10].”
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“Depression is common in people with type 2 diabetes[21] and is associated with poorer glycemic control, increased symptoms and complications, poorer adherence to exercise and diet recommendations[22], and elevated risk of mortality, over and above the elevations in risk associated with diabetes itself[23].”
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“Depression is common in people with type 2 diabetes[21] and is associated with poorer glycemic control, increased symptoms and complications, poorer adherence to exercise and diet recommendations[22], and elevated risk of mortality, over and above the elevations in risk associated with diabetes itself[23].”
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“In observational studies, positive affect is associated with an increased likelihood of physical activity[4,5,6,7] and healthy eating[5,8], as well as a lower likelihood of tobacco use [9,10].”
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“Research on individuals newly diagnosed with HIV indicates that positive affect prospectively predicts greater liklihood of engagement in care and better medication adherence [11].”
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“The most successful of these interventions have a variety of components and interactive elements to encourage engagement (including Beating the Blues, which is approved for use by the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [35,36,37,38,39,40].)”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Positive Affect and Depression
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“A meta-analysis of 25 programs targeting constructs such as gratitude, happiness, and optimism found a medium effect size for relief of depression symptoms (median r = .26), with stronger effects for currently-depressed participants[24].”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Positive Affect and Depression
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“Depressive Symptoms were measured using the CES-D[69], a measure of clinical and subclinical depressive symptomatology.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Measures
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“Those who completed four emotion reports within the first 7 days were randomized to begin the intervention or to the control condition in which participants continued for 60 days of emotion reporting only1.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Procedure
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“Diabetes self efficacy was measured using a version of the Confidence in Diabetes Self-Care scale (CIDS;[73]) adapted for type 2 diabetes.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Measures
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“The focus on pleasurable and rewarding activities of positive psychology interventions resembles the approach of Behavioral Activation (BA) therapies, which have also shown substantial effectiveness at treating depression [25].”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Positive Affect and Depression
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“Intervention and control groups did not differ on age (F = 2.59, p = .11), gender (χ2 = .66, p = .42), or any racial category (χ2 < .1.63, p > .20).”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results
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“In a meta-analysis, Pal and colleagues[30] found that online diabetes self-management interventions have a small, but statistically significant, effects on HbA1c, diet, and lipids, but do not consistently improve depression symptoms.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Positive Affect and Depression
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“Positive and Negative Affect were measured with the Differential Emotions Scale (DES; [72]).”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Measures
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“Diabetes-related distress was measured using the Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS; [74]).”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Measures
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“Online interventions for diabetes self-management and depression are feasible and have shown some efficacy [28]|[29] at improving symptoms of depression and some health outcomes.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Positive Affect and Depression
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“Of the 53 participants recruited, 49 (92%) completed the initial emotion reporting run-in and were randomized (see Figure 1 for the CONSORT flow diagram).”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Completion Rates
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“Thirty-eight participants (72% of the original sample) met this criterion.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Completion Rates
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“Several meta-analyses of internet and computerized interventions, both self-help and clinician-assisted[31,32,33,34], found that internet interventions can reduce symptoms of depression, including among those who might otherwise lack access to treatment.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Positive Affect and Depression
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“Psychological interventions that specifically target depression in samples of people with type 2 diabetes have shown some efficacy (e.g.[26]) but tend to be time intensive for both the patient and the provider, expensive to deliver, and difficult to disseminate in home or other non-clinic settings [27].”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Positive Affect and Depression
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“Perceived Stress was measured with the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; [70,71]). The PSS is a widely-used measure of psychological stress designed for community samples.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Measures
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“Forty-two participants (25 intervention and 17 control; 79% of the original sample) completed the final questionnaires. This is the sample used in the analyses reported below.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Completion Rates
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“The pre-post change in CIDS score for intervention-offline participants was marginally significant on its own (t(10) = 1.92, p = .08), tentatively suggesting that the intervention may have led to reduced diabetes self-efficacy for this subset of participants.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Exploratory Analyses
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“This adds to the growing evidence that interventions based on positive emotions are accessible and effective even for individuals already experiencing depression[75], rather than being restricted to those who are doing well.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Discussion
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“Finally, this study did not include follow-up assessments that would allow us to assess long-term intervention effects.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Discussion > Limitations of the current study
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“We have demonstrated that individuals with type 2 diabetes find our online positive emotion skills intervention engaging and feasible to complete.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Discussion > Conclusion
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“This pilot study provides initial evidence that an online positive emotions intervention can be delivered in an effective, understandable, and sensitive manner to adults with type 2 diabetes, with strong participant engagement and adherence.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Discussion > Limitations of the current study
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The emotion-reporting-only control condition is an appropriate comparator for testing DAHLIA's efficacy.
“control condition in which participants continued for 60 days of emotion reporting only1”
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Mindfulness exercises may help participants recognize and appreciate positive events even under chronic stress.
“Mindfulness exercises are continued throughout the intervention because we believe they may also help participants recognize and appreciate positive events, even in the context of chronic stress.”
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The intervention is low cost.
“Because of the low cost of this intervention, and because individuals typically do not receive interventions of this type (i.e., there is no comparable treatment-as-usual), any degree of efficacy is of potential value.”
The paper relies on this without support.
People with type 2 diabetes typically do not receive interventions of this type, so there is no comparable treatment-as-usual.
“Because of the low cost of this intervention, and because individuals typically do not receive interventions of this type (i.e., there is no comparable treatment-as-usual), any degree of efficacy is of potential value.”
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“Interventions that explicitly target positive emotion show promise for improving health outcomes in a number of chronic illnesses, including diabetes [16,17], heart disease [18,19], hypertension [20,21], depression [22,23], and HIV [24].”
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“In the 1 prior study 20 of a positive psychology-based intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes, the intervention was associated with improvements in psychological outcomes but not health behavior adherence compared to waitlist control.”
From Feasibility and acceptability of a positive psychological intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes (2016) · cites this paper as [20]
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“Despite these appealing features, there has been minimal use of positive psychology interventions in this population. 20”
From Feasibility and acceptability of a positive psychological intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes (2016) · cites this paper as [20]
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“However, that single prior study 20 was delivered by Internet and was substantially shorter (5 weeks) than our intervention.”
From Feasibility and acceptability of a positive psychological intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes (2016) · cites this paper as [20]
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“Several such programs, either alone or combined with motivational interviewing, have focused on the promotion of physical activity in patients with cardiac disease or cardiac risk conditions in randomized studies, with a majority, 203-207 but not all, 208 of such studies finding positive psychology-based interventions to be associated with greater improvements in physical activity compared”
From Psychological Health, Well-Being, and the Mind-Heart-Body Connection: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2021) · cites this paper as [208]
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“However, to our knowledge, PP interventions have not been formally tested in T2D.”
From Positive Psychological Interventions for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Rationale, Theoretical Model, and Intervention Development (2015) · cites this paper as [54]
In the citing paper
“Furthermore, a small randomized trial (N = 43) of an online positive affect skills intervention led to improvements in depressive symptoms in T2D patients [54].”
From Positive Psychological Interventions for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Rationale, Theoretical Model, and Intervention Development (2015) · cites this paper as [54]
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“Regarding direct effects of PP on activity, the established benefits of PP on mood, resilience, well-being, and optimism (pathway B1) [41, 54, 124, 125] are associated with increased physical activity (pathway B2) [48, 88, 123, 131, 132].”
From Positive Psychological Interventions for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Rationale, Theoretical Model, and Intervention Development (2015) · cites this paper as [54]
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“These consisted of four PP articles [41–44], 18 mindfulness-based articles [45–62], six ACT articles [38, 63–67], four resilience-based articles [68–71], and single studies targeting emotional intelligence [72] and positive self-concept [73]”
From Well-being interventions for individuals with diabetes: A systematic review (2019) · cites this paper as [41]
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“Otherwise, depression was measured in three of four PP studies. Among the two controlled studies, depression significantly changed in only one that examined the efficacy of an online, self-paced PP intervention [41].”
From Well-being interventions for individuals with diabetes: A systematic review (2019) · cites this paper as [41]
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“Third, overlapping intervention components across intervention categories limited our ability to compare these categories to one another (e.g., one PP intervention included a mindfulness component [41]).”
From Well-being interventions for individuals with diabetes: A systematic review (2019) · cites this paper as [41]
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“t(10) = 1.92, p = .08”
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“Most participants had perfect medication adherence on all days (19/24 or 76% at T1 and 21/24 or 84% at T2)”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Health Behaviors
Reported 84 · recomputed 87.5
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“Most participants had perfect medication adherence on all days (19/24 or 76% at T1 and 21/24 or 84% at T2)”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Health Behaviors
Reported 76 · recomputed 79.166667
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§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Measures
“On a 4-point scale”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Method > Measures
“(0 = “Rarely or none of the time – less than 1 day”; 4 = “All of the time – 5–7 days”)”
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§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Discussion > Online vs. offline recruitment
“Online recruits in the intervention condition also showed significant reductions in negative affect and perceived life stress relative to online controls.”
§ An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes > Results > Exploratory Analyses
“For NA, the retrospective measure had a similar pattern of marginal effects (βcond = −.35, p = .08; βinteraction = .46, p = .10), indicating that the intervention reduced NA for participants recruited online but not offline.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cohn, M. A., Pietrucha, M. E., Saslow, L. R., Hult, J. R., & Moskowitz, J. T.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cohn, Michael A.
- Venue
- The Journal of Positive Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-06-10
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 523-534
- ISSN
- 1743-9760 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9779
- PMC
- PMC4157680
- OpenAlex
- W2061783093
- Semantic Scholar
- 1aff0866fbdbfe3818195e2d942041b1f336b7a8
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 7.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Journal of Positive Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (K24MH093225)
- National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR024131)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Management and Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- type 2 diabetes, depression, positive affect, online intervention, savoring, gratitude, acts of kindness, dahlias, perceived stress, glycemic control, health behavior, feasibility
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