Efficacy of Spanish or English Language Versions of Mindfulness Meditation on Depression

NCT03545074 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: REMAPS
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 76
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

This study explores the differential efficacy of Spanish or English versions of a mindfulness intervention on Depression levels, using a pre test post test design and an active control condition (health education).

Conditions

Depression

Keywords

mindfulness; depression; Spanish

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Beck Depression Inventory

  The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a 21-item self-reporting questionnaire for evaluating the severity of depression in normal and psychiatric populations

  6 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (6)

• Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

  6 weeks

• Perceived Stress Scale

  6 weeks

• Self Compassion Scale

  6 weeks

• Positive and Negative Affect Schedule

  6 weeks

• IL6

  6 weeks

Study Arms (4)

Mindfulness Spanish

EXPERIMENTAL

The MAPs program was developed at UCLA (Winston \& Smalley, 2010 and Lopez-Maya, 2016) and provides experiential training in mindfulness-based practices, including mindfulness meditation. UCLA-certified instructors delivered the interventions. Active program components include sitting and walking meditations, body scan and loving-kindness meditation. Participants were provided with audio CDs or digital downloads to complete their daily meditation assignments. Sessions were held once per week for 2 hours per session over a period of six consecutive weeks. Home practice assignments consist of daily mindfulness exercises starting with 5 minutes daily, progressing to 20 minutes daily by the end of the program.

Behavioral: Mindful Awareness Practices- Spanish

Mindfulness English

EXPERIMENTAL

The MAPs program was developed at UCLA (Winston \& Smalley, 2010) and provides experiential training in mindfulness-based practices, including mindfulness meditation. UCLA-certified instructors delivered the interventions. Active program components include sitting and walking meditations, body scan and loving-kindness meditation. Participants were provided with audio CDs or digital downloads to complete their daily meditation assignments. Sessions were held once per week for 2 hours per session over a period of six consecutive weeks. Home practice assignments consist of daily mindfulness exercises starting with 5 minutes daily, progressing to 20 minutes daily by the end of the program.

Behavioral: Mindful Awareness Practices- English

Health Education Spanish

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general. Similar interventions have been described elsewhere (Black, et al., 2014; Irwin, et al., 2014). A trained health educator provided videos and didactic presentations on topics such as: stress, sleep hygiene, diet \& nutrition, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse. The health education condition resembled the MAPs intervention in terms of duration, group format and support, attention and participant expectancy regarding health benefits.

Behavioral: Health Education - Spanish

Health Education English

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general. Similar interventions have been described elsewhere (Black, et al., 2014; Irwin, et al., 2014). A trained health educator provided videos and didactic presentations on topics such as: stress, sleep hygiene, diet \& nutrition, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse. The health education condition resembled the MAPs intervention in terms of duration, group format and support, attention and participant expectancy regarding health benefits.

Behavioral: Health Education - English

Interventions

Mindful Awareness Practices- English BEHAVIORAL

The 6-week intervention aimed at teaching mindfulness-based strategies to participants (in English)

Mindfulness English

Mindful Awareness Practices- Spanish BEHAVIORAL

The 6-week intervention aimed at teaching mindfulness-based strategies to participants (in Spanish)

Mindfulness Spanish

Health Education - English BEHAVIORAL

The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general (in English)

Health Education English

Health Education - Spanish BEHAVIORAL

The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general (in Spanish)

Health Education Spanish

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• In order to determine eligibility, interested participants will be phone screened. To qualify for the study, participants have to be fluent in either Spanish or English, validated by self-report at phone screening. Additionally, during the phone screening participants had to complete a 4-item version of the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen \& Williamson, 1988) and score above the 50th percentile (a score of 9 or higher) in order to be eligible

You may not qualify if:

• People not meeting any of the above criteria.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, Los Angeles: lead

Related Publications (1)

• Lopez-Maya E, Olmstead R, Irwin MR. Mindfulness meditation and improvement in depressive symptoms among Spanish- and English speaking adults: A randomized, controlled, comparative efficacy trial. PLoS One. 2019 Jul 5;14(7):e0219425. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219425. eCollection 2019.

  PMID: 31276540 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Model Details: Pretest and immediate postest design with an active control condition.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 22, 2018
• First Posted: June 4, 2018
• Study Start: February 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2017
• Study Completion: February 1, 2018
• Last Updated: January 15, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-01