Effects of a Application (Flourish App) in Medical Students

NCT03895190 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HIAE_Florescer_Medicina
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This protocol proposes a well-being program, delivered through an application for mobile devices, based on meditation and positive psychology principles such as human development, the improvement of virtues, quality of life and well-being. The investigators hypothesize that this program offered in mobile application may promote well-being, reduce stress related problems and improving emotional regulation in the participants. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a well-being program delivered through an application for mobile devices in a sample of medical students. Methods: Three hundred students of the undergraduate medical course of Albert Einstein Israelite Faculty will be recruited. The participants will be randomized in two groups of 150 participants each one, half of them in the control group (GC) and the other half to the intervention group (GI).

Conditions

Emotional Stress

Keywords

well-being; stress; positive psychology; meditation; mobile application (app); medical students

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Changes in subjective symptoms of well-being at work

  Sliding scale for stress level from 0 to 100

  baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

• Changes in subjective symptoms of stress

  Sliding scale for well-being level from 0 to 100

  baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Changes in subjective symptoms of stress at the moment assessed using the sliding scale for stress

  four times a week, before and after the period of each class (20 minutes)

• Changes in subjective symptoms of well-being at the moment assessed using the sliding scale for well-being

  four times a week, before and after the period of each class (20 minutes)

Study Arms (2)

Control App

NO INTERVENTION

Initially this control group will have access to a Control App and after 8 weeks this goup will receive the intervention (Flourishing App Program).

Experimental: Flourishing App Program

EXPERIMENTAL

This group will receive the intervention Flourishing App Program and after that it will not receive any other intervention.

Behavioral: Flourishing App Program

Interventions

Flourishing App Program BEHAVIORAL

This intervention is based on relaxation, well-being promotion, meditation practices and positive psychology principles. The program is being evaluated in a classroom format into another project and was adapted for this project in the application format for mobile devices. It will last for 8 weeks, with trainings of 15 to 25 minutes, four times a week.

Experimental: Flourishing App Program

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Women and men from 17 years
• Students of the undergraduate medical course of Albert Einstein Israelite Faculty

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

São Paulo, São Paulo, 05601-901, Brazil

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stress, Psychological; Alzheimer Disease

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Dementia; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Tauopathies; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Neurocognitive Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Elisa H Kozasa, PhD

  Instituto do Cérebro- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 27, 2019
• First Posted: March 29, 2019
• Study Start: August 6, 2019
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2019
• Study Completion: April 21, 2020
• Last Updated: April 24, 2020

Record last verified: 2019-03

Locations

BR (1)