Contemplative Well-being Apps for the Workplace
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 66
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in Incivility in Nursing Education Revised Survey score
研究概览
简要总结
The study will examine the use and impact of a meditation app delivered to adult workforce populations facing extreme time demands. Enrollees will be randomized to either app or a wait-list group, and will be assessed in terms of job and daily functioning, well-being, and biomarkers of immune function and stress physiology, and neural structure and function prior to randomization and again at multiple time points after participants commence app engagement. In order to assess efficacy, we will examine the longitudinal changes in all measures in both the mindfulness group, compared to wait-list control group.
详细描述
Over the last 25 years, research on contemplative practices, a family of practices including mindfulness meditation and yoga, has advanced in domains both clinical and basic, motivated by burgeoning evidence of their efficacy for remediating psychopathology and augmenting well-being and resilience. However, much of this research has examined the effects of scheduled group interventions, delivered in-person by instructors over the course of several weeks. Far less research has looked at the delivery method that is most common and arguably most sustainable for busy adults, namely, smart phone delivered Contemplative Applications (apps) for Well-being (CWAs). The proposed study will examine the use and impact of an app delivered to populations facing extreme time demands.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Participants will be blinded by study ID# during data collection and management.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 21 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Emory Healthcare and University employees, Cox Enterprises employees, and Emory students
排除标准
- •For students and employees in the biomarker sub-study, participants will be studied only if they pass the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging standardized MRI screening protocol (exclusions for ferrous metal in any part of body, such as pacemakers, cochlear implants, surgical clips or metal fragments, serious medical conditions, claustrophobia)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Incivility in Nursing Education Revised Survey score
时间窗: Baseline, Week 8
The Incivility in Nursing Education Revised Survey contains 24-items asking students about behaviors they exhibited or witnessed in the past 12 months (for example, "Students made rude gestures or nonverbal behaviors towards others"). Respondents indicate how often these behaviors occurred by selecting from 1 = Never, 2 = Rarely (only once or twice), 3 = Sometimes (approximately once per month), or 4 = Often (more than once per month). Total scores can range from 24 to 96, with higher scores indicating more incivility performed or witnessed.
次要结局
- Change in School-Burnout Inventory score(Baseline, Week 8)
- Change in white matter density in the brain stem(Baseline, Week 8)
- Change in Gene (mRNA) expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)(Baseline, Week 8)
- Change in Anxiety score on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS)(Baseline, Week 8)
- Change in gray matter density in the brain stem(Baseline, Week 8)
- Change in Depression score on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS)(Baseline, Week 8)
- Change in Empathic Accuracy (EA) Task(Baseline, Week 8)
研究者
Jennifer Mascaro
Assistant Professor
Emory University