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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Posit Psychol. 2015;10(6):477–488. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2015.1015158

Table 3.

Study Timeline and Assessment Schedule

Base-
line
Three Good Things Intervention (TGT) or Placebo (P) Administration over 14 Days Follow-
Up
Follow-
Up
Week 1 2 8 14
Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 56 98
Intervention O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O TGT O O O
Control O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O P O O
Quantitative
GQ-6 G G G G
PANAS-NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
PANAS-UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA UPA
PANAS-APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA APA
Qualitative Open-
ended
survey
questions
In-
depth
inter-
views

Notes. O=Observation (an assessment/measurement occasion). TGT=Three good things intervention. P=Placebo exercise. G=administration of the Gratitude Questionnaire-Six Item Form (GQ-6). NA=administration of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Expanded Form, Negative Affect Subscale (PANAS-NA). UPA=administration of the PANAS-Expanded Form, Serenity Subscale (Unactivated Positive Affect). APA=administration of the PANAS-Expanded Form, Positive Affect Subscale (Activated Positive Affect).