BPS-Tech Pilot Trial for Eighth Graders
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Summary
NIH has registered a pilot clinical trial (NCT07540819) testing a single-session writing exercise called Best Possible Self-Tech (BPS-Tech) with eighth graders. The study aims to assess feasibility and acceptability of classroom delivery, and to examine associations between textual features and positive affect outcomes.
“The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to learn if a single-session writing exercise (i.e., Best Possible Self-Tech) can improve positive affect and prosocial technology use in a community sample of eighth graders.”
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This document registers a new pilot clinical trial with ClinicalTrials.gov. The study will evaluate whether a Best Possible Self-Tech (BPS-Tech) writing intervention can be feasibly delivered in middle school classrooms and whether textual features of entries correlate with improved positive affect.
For compliance readers, this registry entry has no direct regulatory implications. It is an informational record of a research study with no compliance obligations, deadlines, or enforcement components.
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Best Possible Self-Tech for Middle Schoolers
N/A NCT07540819 Kind: NA Apr 20, 2026
Abstract
The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to learn if a single-session writing exercise (i.e., Best Possible Self-Tech) can improve positive affect and prosocial technology use in a community sample of eighth graders. The main questions it aims to answer are:
- Can the the Best Possible Self-Tech (BPS-Tech) intervention be feasibly and acceptably delivered in classrooms?
- What are the associations between textual features of BPS- Tech entries (e.g., length, vividness, positive tone) and post-intervention positive affect?
- How do participants describe their future prosocial online behavior ("doing good"), engagement with prosocial content ("seeing good") and associated positive emotions ("feeling good") in the BPS-Tech writing exercise?
Participants will participate in the BPS-Tech exercise during class time and respond to surveys about their prosocial technology use and positive affect.
Conditions: Technology Use, Positive Affect
Interventions: Best Possible Self-Tech
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