Online RCT Comparing the Effects of Mindfulness, Sham Mindfulness and Book Listening Control on Coronavirus-related Catastrophizing in Adults
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- The University of Queensland
- Enrollment
- 744
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Coronavirus-related catastrophizing
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Both mindfulness meditation and expectancy effects are known to reduce anxiety, stress and catastrophizing, but it is unknown whether and how expectancy effects contribute to the overall effect of mindfulness meditation on these outcomes, especially during significant global events such as the coronavirus pandemic. This study includes four interrelated aims that will probe these effects and interactions.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •At least 18 years of age
- •Able to read and understand English
Exclusion Criteria
- •Recurrent pain (two or more days in the last month)
- •Chronic pain (pain most days in the last three months)
- •Incomplete or invalid data (response time < 32 minutes, failing attention checks)
- •Completing the 20-minute training module in < 18 minutes or > 90 minutes
Arms & Interventions
Mindfulness meditation
"focussed attention" mindfulness meditation technique taught as means to reduce coronavirus-related catastrophizing.
Intervention: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training) (Other)
Specific sham mindfulness meditation
a training session designed to specifically match the real mindfulness training while lacking the proposed active elements of mindfulness training. Delivered as a means to elicit expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing.
Intervention: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training) (Other)
General sham mindfulness meditation
a training session designed to generally match focussed-attention mindfulness meditation while maintaining greater distance from proposed mindfulness mechanisms. Delivered as a means to elicit expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing.
Intervention: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training) (Other)
Book listening control
this group completes no meditation training. They listen to a spoken excerpt from the audiobook "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne"
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Coronavirus-related catastrophizing
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via a covid-19-related catastrophizing scale (CCS; 0=no catastrophizing, 52=highest catastrophizing, 30+=clinically significant catastrophizing)
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported