Health, Integration, Concentration: Mindfulness in Schools

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mindfulness; Child Development; Burnout Syndrome
• Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness based stress reduction

• Registration Number: NCT03141229
• Lead Sponsor: Universität Duisburg-Essen

Brief Summary

Mindfulness training for teacher and children of primary schools. Blinded and controlled study design. Burnout as primary outcome for teacher and classroom behavior for children.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-12
• Study First Submitted: 2017-02-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-05-02
• Study First Posted: 2017-05-05
• Primary Completion: 2018-08
• Study Completion: 2019-03
• Status Verified: 2020-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-23
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 90

Inclusion Criteria

• reading ability
• positive declaration of consent

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Mindfulness based stress reduction	One school semester MBSR training for teacher; followed by one school semester mindfulness training for children and one school semester follow-up period.
Waitlist	Mindfulness based stress reduction	One school semester waitlist; followed by one school semester MBSR training for teacher and one school semester MBSR training for children.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Burnout (Teacher) assessed with the Burnout-Screening-Scale	Baseline; Timepoint 1 (4 month); Timepoint 2 (12 month); Timepoint 3 (16 month)	Burnout-Screening-Scale (Change from baseline)
Classroom climate pupils	Baseline; Timepoint 1 (4 month); Timepoint 2 (12 month); Timepoint 3 (16 month)	Emotional and social school experience questionnaire (Change from baseline)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stress and Anxiety (Teacher) assessed with the Stress and Anxiety Inventory	Baseline; Timepoint 1 (4 month); Timepoint 2 (12 month); Timepoint 3 (16 month)	Stress and Anxiety Inventory for teacher (Change from baseline)
Health-related Quality of Life (pupils) assessed with the Kidscreen-10	Baseline; Timepoint 1 (4 month); Timepoint 2 (12 month); Timepoint 3 (16 month)	Kidscreen-10 (Change from baseline)
Concentration (pupils) assessed with a d2-Concentration assessment tool	Baseline; Timepoint 1 (4 month); Timepoint 2 (12 month); Timepoint 3 (16 month)	d2-Concentration assessment tool (Change from baseline)
Mindfulness (Teacher) assessed with the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory	Baseline; Timepoint 1 (4 month); Timepoint 2 (12 month); Timepoint 3 (16 month)	Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (Change from baseline)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Schulamt Stadt Solingen; 🇩🇪 Solingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany