Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Study for Couples
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 22
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Self- reported physical health status
研究概览
简要总结
Mindfulness based stress reduction offered to couples where one has metabolic syndrome to see if their stress is reduced as measured by bio markers and surveys
详细描述
This is a pilot study being designed to pilot a MBSR program for the purposes of future research.The investigators will be using two cohorts. One who will get the intervention and the other who will be wait listed and receive the intervention at a later date. Eight week mindfulness class offered to couples, who also attend an orientation session and a half day retreat with other couples to learn how to control stress through mindfulness meditation practices. Participants will come for lab work before intervention, eight weeks after initial class and at the end of entire program. Bio- markers to be measured are waist circumference, FBS and cholesterol.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 90 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Participant has 3 of the following: a Abdominal Obesity; b. Hypertriglyceridemia; c. Low High Density Lipoproteins (HDL); d. High Blood Pressure; e. High Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS)
- •Participant must be married or co- habituating
- •Both partners are over sixty
排除标准
- •Either partner is non- English speaking
- •Either partner practices mind- body therapies more than once a week/
- •Either partner taking psychiatric medicine
研究组 & 干预措施
Wait List Control
Will receive voucher for MBSR after study is concluded
Intervention
These people will receive the MBSR
干预措施: MBSR (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Self- reported physical health status
时间窗: Up to three weeks after intervention ends
SF 12
Mindfulness Skills
时间窗: Up to three weeks after intervention ends
Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills
Perceived stress
时间窗: Up to three weeks after intervention ends
Perceived stress scale,
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Joan Monin
Associate professor with term
Yale University