Mindfulness Training for Small Teams
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Cognitive Change
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
- Enrollment
- 356
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in Attentional Performance
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 3 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to look at how mindfulness training may influence how the participant thinks, feels, and acts.
Investigators
Amishi Jha
Associate Professor
University of Miami
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Individuals who are between 18 and 65 years of age
- •Individuals who are fluent English speakers
- •Individuals who are active-duty service members
- •Men and women of all races and ethnicities
Exclusion Criteria
- •Individuals who have a medical or neurological condition that might interfere with performance on the task in the study (e.g., epilepsy)
- •Individuals with a history of hospitalization for psychological/mental health issues within the last 6 months.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in Attentional Performance
Time Frame: Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2)
Attentional Performance as measured by the Sustained Attention Response Task (SART).This task uses a continuous performance paradigm involving button presses to frequently presented non-targets (numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) but requires the participants to withhold their motor response to the infrequent target (number 3). Withholding responses only to infrequent targets encourages a pre-potent response and mind wandering. Real-time subjective experience of mind wandering during SART is assessed through experience-sampling probes randomly presented throughout the task.
Change in Working Memory Performance
Time Frame: Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2)
Working Memory Performance as measured by the Working memory task with Affective Distracters. In this task, participants are presented with a memory array that they are to encode and hold in memory during a delay interval. During the delay, emotionally negative or neutral scene images are presented.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in Cohesion(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Team Situation Monitoring(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Workgroup Emotional Intelligence(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Team Mindfulness(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Mindfulness(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Decentering(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Psychological Health(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Positive Affect(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Negative Affect(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))
- Change in Perceived Stress(Baseline (testing session 1) to week 5 (testing session 2))