MIndfulness for Students

NCT03669016 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: MIndfulness for Students
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 120
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of the study is to find out, weather the students' wellbeing and functional ability can be enhanced by two different type of mindfulness interventions: 1) face-to-face group-based training, and 2) internet-based training based in mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy. Study results may be used to decide whether it is worth offering mindfulness training for medical faculty students, and what kind of training would be most suitable and effective in the medical education context.

Conditions

Well-being; Functional Ability; Stress; Mindfulness

Keywords

well-being; functional ability; stress; mindfulness; undergaduate students

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change from Baseline CORE-OM measure at post-intervention and 4-month follow-up.

  CORE-OM, Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Outcome Measure.

  It is measured three weeks before the intervention starts, immediately after the 8-week intervention is finished, and 4-month after the intervention is finished.

Secondary Outcomes (25)

• Change from Baseline rate of stress at post-intervention and 4-month follow-up.

  It is measured in the same day when the intervention starts, immediately after the 8-week intervention is finished, and 4-month after the intervention is finished.

• Change from Baseline rate of resilience in studies at post-intervention and 4-month follow-up.

  It is measured three weeks before the intervention starts, immediately after the 8-week intervention is finished, and 4-month after the intervention is finished.

• Change from Baseline rate of social support in studies at post-intervention and 4-month follow-up.

  It is measured three weeks before the intervention starts, immediately after the 8-week intervention is finished, and 4-month after the intervention is finished.

• Change from Baseline rate of study load in studies at post-intervention and 4-month follow-up.

  It is measured three weeks before the intervention starts, immediately after the 8-week intervention is finished, and 4-month after the intervention is finished.

• Students' possibilities to influence to their own studies

  It is measured three weeks before the interventions start.

Study Arms (3)

Face-to-face group-based mindfulness

EXPERIMENTAL

8 weeks training.

Behavioral: Face-to-face group-based mindfulness

Internet-based mindfulness

EXPERIMENTAL

8 weeks training.

Behavioral: Internet-based mindfulness

Waiting-list control group

NO INTERVENTION

No training during the study.

Interventions

Face-to-face group-based mindfulness BEHAVIORAL

An eight-week course, including 75-90 minutes once-a-week meeting. Participants are supposed to practice mindfulness skills in their spare time 10-30 minutes per day. An eight-week course, including 75-90 minutes once-a-week meeting. Participants are supposed to practice mindfulness skills in their spare time 10-30 minutes per day. This training is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's course Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and book Williams \& Penman Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world and adapted for university students. In addition, a manual written in Cambridge University "Mindfulness Skills for Students" is utilized.

Face-to-face group-based mindfulness

Internet-based mindfulness BEHAVIORAL

An eight-week course, including 60 minutes starting and ending meeting. Participants are practicing mindfulness, doing other tasks (writing, reading, reflecting) on their own. This course is created in University of Jyväskylä, Finland. It is based on mindfulness and Acceptance and Commmitment Therapy.

Internet-based mindfulness

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• \- All undergraduate students of Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki who have started their studies in year 2009 or after that.

You may not qualify if:

• The participants that can not participate fully to the intervention (self-evaluated).
• Participants who have severe mental problems (like anxiety or depression) when the study starts,
• Participants who have hade a great loss or trauma in near past, or some other mental or physical health problem that could make participation difficult.
• This is evaluated based on how the participants answers to the base line questionnaire the following measures:
• answers to the CORE-OM questionnaire and
• answers to the questions where participants evaluate themselves their anxiety, depression, mental health.
• If participant tell they have some other mental disorder, they are not accepted to the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Helsinki: lead
• University of Cambridge: collaborator
• University of Jyvaskyla: collaborator
• Technische Universität Dresden: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Helsinki

Helsinki, University of Helsinki, 00014, Finland

RECRUITING

Related Publications (4)

• Miller R, Wankerl M, Stalder T, Kirschbaum C, Alexander N. The serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and cortisol stress reactivity: a meta-analysis. Mol Psychiatry. 2013 Sep;18(9):1018-24. doi: 10.1038/mp.2012.124. Epub 2012 Sep 4.

  PMID: 22945032 BACKGROUND

• Daya Z, Hearn JH. Mindfulness interventions in medical education: A systematic review of their impact on medical student stress, depression, fatigue and burnout. Med Teach. 2018 Feb;40(2):146-153. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2017.1394999. Epub 2017 Nov 7.

  PMID: 29113526 BACKGROUND

• Galante J, Dufour G, Vainre M, Wagner AP, Stochl J, Benton A, Lathia N, Howarth E, Jones PB. A mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress in university students (the Mindful Student Study): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Lancet Public Health. 2018 Feb;3(2):e72-e81. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30231-1. Epub 2017 Dec 19.

  PMID: 29422189 RESULT

• Kunzler AM, Helmreich I, Konig J, Chmitorz A, Wessa M, Binder H, Lieb K. Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare students. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Jul 20;7(7):CD013684. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013684.

  PMID: 32691879 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Saara Repo, PhD

  University of Helsinki

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Saara Repo, PhD

CONTACT

+358405189456; saara.repo@helsinki.fi

Tiina Paunio, PhD

CONTACT

+358947163734; tiina.paunio@helsinki.fi

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator, Senior lecturer in University Pedagogy

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 31, 2018
• First Posted: September 13, 2018
• Study Start: August 22, 2018
• Primary Completion: April 15, 2019
• Study Completion: April 15, 2019
• Last Updated: September 13, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-09

Locations

FI (1)