Mindfulness Based Resilience Training

NCT02419430 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 15-001492
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators aim to evaluate the Mindfulness Based Resilience Training (MBRT) intervention for Mayo Clinic employees in order to provide evidence for improved ability to cope with stress and decreased work-related burnout and stress-related symptoms as a result of MBRT training. In addition, the investigators aim to compare the effects of MBRT + smartphone sleep feedback, a smartphone resilience intervention + smartphone sleep feedback, or waitlist control +smartphone sleep feedback in a randomized clinical trial in a sample of 75 Mayo Clinic employees.

Conditions

Stress, Psychological

Keywords

well-being; stress; resilience; self-compassion

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Changes in scores using the DASS-21(Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales) questionnaire

  Baseline to 6 months

Study Arms (3)

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

Behavioral: MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

Phone application only

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Phone application only

Behavioral: Phone application only

Questionnaires

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Questionnaires

Behavioral: Questionnaires

Interventions

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application BEHAVIORAL

2 hours/week for 6 week, in classroom intervention involving mindfulness based resilience training.focused on mindfulness and self-compassion training, including body awareness, breath awareness, mindful movement, awareness of thoughts, and awareness of emotion. Core concepts included: normalizing experience of stress and changing one's relationship with an experience; learning to be a compassionate observer of self in order to appreciate the moment; recognizing undue efforts to control something that has already happened; shifting attention to felt body sense and away from the narrative; and redirecting attention to a value as a way of evoking positive states that enhance the present moment experience. Participants also use the smartphone to track their sleep and subjective well-being.

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

Phone application only BEHAVIORAL

Participants will track their sleep and subjective well-being and also choose one of the following weekly challenges, which is completed via smartphone interactions: * Joys of Life * Count your blessings * Think differenc, feel better * Exercising --\> Happier \+ Exercising --\> Sleep * Pre-Sleep routine * Eat that frog * Mindful Meditation

Phone application only

Questionnaires BEHAVIORAL

At baseline, immediately after the last MBRT session (6 weeks) and again at 3 and 6 months, all participants will complete questionnaires, including: 1) WHO-5 Well-Being Index; 2) DASS-21; 3) VAS-Fatigue; 4) MBI-Human Services version; 5) Self-Compassion Scale; 6) Connor-Davidson 2-item resilience scale; 7) Compassion to others scale.

Questionnaires

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Stress subscale of the DASS-21 needs to be a score 5 or greater and
• Must have a smart Phone, and
• Ability to attend at least 5 complete sessions.
• Stress subscale of the DASS-21 less than 5.
• Must have a smart Phone.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mayo Clinic: lead
• Arizona State University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Mayo Clinic in Arizona

Scottsdale, Arizona, 85259, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stress, Psychological

Interventions

Surveys and Questionnaires

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Officials

• Cynthia Stonnington, MD

  Mayo Clinic

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PI

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 14, 2015
• First Posted: April 17, 2015
• Study Start: April 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2016
• Study Completion: March 1, 2016
• Last Updated: May 17, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-05

Locations

US (1)