Mindfulness for Healthcare Students: Smartphone App or Face-to-face Group? A Randomized Controlled Trial
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Students
- Sponsor
- Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz
- Enrollment
- 154
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- State-trait anxiety
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The main purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of a mindfulness-based training app ('REM Volver a Casa') versus a regular, presence-based program (MBSR) on the reduction of anxiety and other factors related to the physician-patient relationship, in healthcare grade students.
Detailed Description
Healthcare students suffer from higher levels of anxiety and depression than the general population. It compromises not only their mental health, but also the quality of care provided. Aptitudes such as empathy and self-compassion are essential to improve this deficit and overcome the well-known burnout syndrome. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program has proven to be an effective intervention for lowering stress in numerous studies. However, this intervention asks for a significant degree of personal involvement, thus the number of dropouts is often reported as a problem. New technologies might allow users to adapt training to their personal schedules. The present randomized trial aims to compare the efficacy of a mindfulness-based training delivered through a mobile application ('REM Volver a Casa'), a presence-based program (MBSR), and a control group in healthcare grade students.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Student of Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology or Nursing.
- •Ability to read and understand Spanish language.
- •Signature of Informed Consent.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Previous MBSR or anorther standardized Mindfulness training.
- •Inability to read or understand Spanish language.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
State-trait anxiety
Time Frame: From baseline to 8 weeks
Post-intervention changes in State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) for each of the arms. It is a self-administered questionnaire which includes two subscales assessing state and trait anxiety. Each of them consists of 20 Likert items ranging 0-3. Lower values mean better outcomes.
Secondary Outcomes
- Self-compassion(From baseline to 16 weeks)
- State-Trait Anger(From baseline to 16 weeks)
- Mindfulness(From baseline to 16 weeks)
- Empathy(From baseline to 16 weeks)
- Expectancy of improvement(Pre-intervention questionnaire)
- Depression(From baseline to 16 weeks)
- Autonomous motivation(Pre-intervention questionnaire)
- State-Trait Anxiety(From baseline to 16 weeks)