Mindful Positive Reappraisal: a Daily Diary Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02680444 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 11NV038
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 129
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Brief and cost-effective interventions teaching emotion regulation techniques can be feasibly applied to promote mental health in University students. The tools of mindfulness (i.e., objective awareness and acceptance) and positive reappraisal (i.e., positive re-evaluation of negative events) can mutually benefit one another to promote well-being. The current study explored the effects of a randomly-assigned Mindful-Reappraisal intervention (n=36) compared to Reappraisal-Only (n=34) and an active control (n=36) on university students' daily affect over five days. Time by condition interactions were analyzed with planned contrasts and multilevel growth modelling.

Conditions

Mental Health Wellness 1

Keywords

Mindfulness; Primary Promotion; Mental Health; Well-being; Positive Reappraisal

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Daily Affect

  Daily affect was measured with two scales (i.e., positive affect and negative affect) and assessed participants' general affect over the past 24 hours.

  Day 1 - Day 5 of the intervention practice days

Study Arms (3)

Reappraisal-Only Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants were instructed to independently practice the Self-Administered Reappraisal-Only Exercise in the evening for five days. First, participants recalled a negative event from that day and then followed the positive reappraisal instructions available online. This involved thinking about how one could grow, learn or benefit from the negative event in any way possible.

Behavioral: Self-Administered Reappraisal-Only Exercise

Mindful-Reappraisal Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants were instructed to independently practice the Self-Administered Mindful-Reappraisal Exercise in the evening for five days. First, participants recalled a negative event from that day and then followed the Mindful-Reappraisal instructions available online. This involved thinking about the negative event in an objective, non-judgmental way, then following the Reappraisal-Only instructions, and closing off with a brief mindfulness breathing technique.

Behavioral: Self-Administered Mindful-Reappraisal Exercise

Event Recall Active Control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants were instructed to independently practice the Self-Administered Event Recall Exercise in the evening for five days. In this condition, participants were only instructed to recall a negative event from that day with no reappraisal exercise.

Behavioral: Self-Administered Event Recall Exercise

Interventions

Self-Administered Mindful-Reappraisal Exercise BEHAVIORAL

Combining the practice of mindful acceptance of negative events combined with a reappraisal of the event by examining its positive aspects.

Mindful-Reappraisal Intervention

Self-Administered Reappraisal-Only Exercise BEHAVIORAL

A reappraisal of daily negative events by examining the positive aspects.

Reappraisal-Only Intervention

Self-Administered Event Recall Exercise BEHAVIORAL

Recall a negative event that took place that day.

Event Recall Active Control

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Undergraduate students

You may not qualify if:

• Not undergraduate students

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ekaterina Pogrebtsova: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Psychological Well-Being

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Personal Satisfaction; Behavior

Study Officials

• M. Gloria Gonzalez-Morales

  University of Guelph

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Graduate Researcher

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 4, 2016
• First Posted: February 11, 2016
• Study Start: February 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2013
• Study Completion: October 1, 2013
• Last Updated: February 11, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share