NCT05199779|Completed
Single Session Intervention for Building Self-Compassion Habits-RCT
A Single Session Intervention Leveraging an Ultra-Brief Exercise for Building Self-Compassion Habits-A Randomized Controlled Trial
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A Single Session Intervention Leveraging an Ultra-Brief Exercise for Building Self-Compassion Habits-A Randomized Controlled Trial
Sponsor study identifier
interventional
135
1 country
1
Study Start
February 13, 2022
Actual (reported)Primary Completion
April 29, 2022
Actual (reported)Study Completion
April 29, 2022
Actual (reported)The study will test a single session self-compassion intervention that leverages an ultra-brief contemplative exercise. It will evaluate the effect of this intervention on psychopathology, stress, growth mindset, positive affect, self-compassion and the automaticity of self-compassion, as well as the relationships between these constructs and the automaticity of self-compassion. The participants will be undergraduate students at a large public university.
Registry-reported information. Elapsed time and enrollment totals alone do not measure study progress or recruitment pace.
April 29, 2022
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January 5, 2022
Actual (reported)January 20, 2022
Actual (reported)February 13, 2022
Actual (reported)April 29, 2022
Actual (reported)April 29, 2022
Actual (reported)Sussex-Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale (SOCS-S)
Sum of 20-item, 5-point response scale. Scores can range from 20 to 100 (Higher score means higher compassion for self). Sub-scale items included.
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
Kind of Person' Implicit Theory Scale (KOPITS)
8 items. 6-point response scale (1 = strongly agree; 6 = strongly disagree) Higher scores indicate a more growth mindset. Lower scores indicate a more fixed mindset. Score is sum of all items, with Q3, Q5, Q7, and Q8 reverse-scored. The formula for reverse-scoring an item is: ((Number of scale points) + 1) - (Respondent's answer)
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
10 items with a 6 point response scale. Positive affect sub-scale only. Scoring: Positive Affect Score: Sum score of 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, and 19. Scores range from 10 - 50. Higher scores = higher levels of positive affect. Negative Affect Score: Sum score of 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18, and 20. Scores range from 10 - 50. Lower scores = lower levels of negative affect.
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
10-item Perceived-Stress Scale (PSS-10)
10 items, 5 point response scale (from 0 = Never to 4 = Very Often) Scoring: Reverse score (e.g., 0 = 4, 1 = 3, 2 = 2, 3 = 1 \& 4 = 0) items 4, 5, 7, \& 8 and then summing across all scale items.
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
State Self-Compassion Scale Long Form (SSCS-L)
Change from pre-induction to post-induction at baseline and at post-treatment (week 4). Change in pre to post-induction changes in state self-compassion from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
Self-Report Behavioral Automaticity Index for Exercise
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
Real Self Overlap Scale
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
Practice Frequency
Assessed at Post-treatment (week 4)
Overall Practice Frequency
Assessed at Post-treatment (week 4)
Practice Duration
Assessed at Post-treatment (week 4)
First, participants will be taught to implement a 20-second self-compassion induction via video recording. Second, participants will be taught to choose a cue that will precede their daily use of the self-compassion induction. Participants will document the cue they chose, and will be emailed a record of their selected cue, along with the recording and transcript of the self-compassion induction that they can refer back to for reference. Third, participants will be asked to use the self-compassion induction as much as they can and at least once during their daily routine following exposure to their chosen cue.
The active control will receive the same procedures as described above, except for receiving a different video containing different instructions describing a finger-tapping exercise. The videos will be virtually identical in length, quality, instructor/their outfit, and lighting.
This 20-second contemplative exercise includes draws from the science of habit formation and includes elements of self-soothing touch, somatic experiencing, and mindful self-compassion.
This 20-second finger tapping exercise involves touching each finger to the thumb on one hand and repeating for twenty seconds. This intervention was designed to control for the potential effect of assessment on outcomes, the effect of having an activity to do for the duration of the intervention (4 weeks), regression to the mean, time, or other nonspecific factors.
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-1650, United States
Susman ES, Chen S, Kring AM, Harvey AG. Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students. Behav Res Ther. 2024 Apr;175:104498. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104498. Epub 2024 Feb 21.
Allison Harvey, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Eli S Susman, BA
University of California, Berkeley
135 participants (actual enrollment reported by the registry).
First Submitted
January 5, 2022
First Posted
DSM-5 Cross-Cutting Measure (DSM-XC)
22 items (suicidality item Q11 removed). 5-point scale (0=none or not at all; 1=slight or rare, less than a day or two; 2=mild or several days; 3=moderate or more than half the days; and 4=severe or nearly every day).
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
Self-Report Behavioral Automaticity Index for Self-Compassion
20 items. 1-9 scale.
Change from baseline to post-treatment (week 4)
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January 20, 2022
Study Start
February 13, 2022
Actual (reported)Primary Completion
April 29, 2022
Actual (reported)Study Completion
April 29, 2022
Actual (reported)Last Updated
May 17, 2022
Record last verified: 2022-05
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