Impact of meditation practice on stress response, attention and emotion in a healthy populatio
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Psychological StressF01.145.126.990
- Registration Number
- RBR-7b8yh8
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruitment completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Age between 18 and 35 years old; Do not present any psychiatric disease (depression, schizophrenia, general or social anxiety). Do not use any psychotropic medication. Do not have experience with meditation. Sign the consent term
Exclusion Criteria
Miss one day of intervention (brief intervention); Miss three consecutive sessions (long intervention); Manifest any infectious disease during the study (brief intervention); Body mass indice higher than 30
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Decreased on salivary cortisol and perceived stress after stress test in participants submitted to mindfulness practice, verified through a significant difference (p lower than 0,05) in saliva samples and scores in questionnaires collected before and after the intervention;Enhanced attention in participants submitted to the practice of mindfulness, verified through a significant difference (p lower than 0,05) obtained from neural activity data collected before and after the intervention
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Decreased anxiety and negative affect in subjects that underwent the practice of mindfulness, verified through a significant difference (p lower than 0,05) obtained from data collected before and after intervention;Increased interoception, positive affect and state of mindfulness in participants submitted to the practice of mindfulness, verified through a significant difference (p lower than 0,05) obtained from data collected before and after the intervention