Mindfulness-Based Health Promotion Program for Educators (MBHP - Educa).

NCT03839030 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 92876418.2.0000.5505
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 146
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

In the last few decades, the world has seen a significant increase in the occurrence of occupational diseases related to Burnout Syndrome (professional exhaustion) and stress in educators. These disorders affect mental health and teaching activity. In this way, they need to develop socio-emotional skills to cope with the psychosocial stressors related to the school environment. Currently, mindfulness-based therapies have been recommended to help educators acquire emotional self-control, and to improve self-esteem, metacognition, attention, resilience and affectivity, in addition to better the social skills needed in the school milieu. The main objective of the proposed research project is to elaborate a program of Mindfulness-Based Health Promotion - educators (MBHP - educa) to be applied to a population of Brazilian public school educators. The efficacy of the program will be evaluated by cognitive testing. Blood tests for the above-mentioned stress-related molecules will be performed. The goal of developing the MBHP - educa Program is to promote and ameliorate the health care of public school teachers. Developing such a research proposal will contribute to debate and implement public health policies focussed on promoting the health of public school teachers in Brazil.

Conditions

Stress; Cognitive Impairment; Burnout Syndrome

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF)

  To evaluate quality of life through five subscales: physical domain - mean of responses psychological domain - mean of responses relationships domain - mean of responses environment domain - mean of responses quality of life and perception of life - mean of responses \*each question response range one to five points Higher scores - Better Quality of Life

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

  To evaluate the Sleep Quality - sum of responses score \*each questions have a specific conversion to range zero to six Higher scores - better sleep quality

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Morningness-eveningness questionnaire - sum *Range 16 to 86 *higher scorer - more morningness type

  To evaluate person's circadian rhythm (biological clock) (sum of all responses)

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Glutathione metabolism from blood samples

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Determination of cytokine levels in serum samples.

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Connor-Davidson Resilience Rating Scale

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

Other Outcomes (7)

• Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test - RAVLT

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

• Stroop test

  Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)

Study Arms (2)

MBHP-Educa

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental: Intervention Group A novel Mindfulness-based Health Promotion program for Educators for active teachers will be employed. The intervention will be held once a week for 8-weeks, two-hour meetings (16.0-h total). Participants will be encouraged to meditate for 10-30 min/day via audio recording.

Other: MBHP-Educa

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Control Group Teacher education as usual. These participants will participate in teacher training (Neuroscience for Education - Neuro Educa). The Neuro-Educa will be held once a week for 8-weeks, two-hour meetings (16.0-h total).

Interventions

MBHP-Educa OTHER

This intervention is a meditative practice which the individuals will practice in their daily life following the MBHP-educa protocol

MBHP-Educa

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 23 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• )Brazilian male or female aged between 23 and 65 years and (2) currently working in the classroom

You may not qualify if:

• (1) the presence of medical conditions or medications use that might affect inflammatory pathways; (2) report of an infectious condition in the last 15 days before collecting a blood sample; (3) active psychiatric and/or clinical comorbidities potentially life-threatening such as psychosis or suicidal ideation; and (4) had previously practiced or currently practicing meditation, yoga or Tai-Chi

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Marcelo Demarzo, MD, PhD: lead

Study Sites (1)

Centro Mente Aberta de Mindfulness e Promoção de Saúde

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Cognitive Dysfunction; Burnout, Psychological

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Cognition Disorders; Neurocognitive Disorders; Mental Disorders; Stress, Psychological; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Marcelo MP Demarzo, PhD

  Federal University of São Paulo

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 15, 2018
• First Posted: February 12, 2019
• Study Start: March 5, 2018
• Primary Completion: July 5, 2019
• Study Completion: July 5, 2020
• Last Updated: March 3, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-03

Locations

BR (1)