The Influence of Mindfulness Meditation Retreat on Attention to Internal Experience
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 142
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in Simulated Thought Paradigm - Body Map Task
研究概览
简要总结
Although attention is thought to have a definitive functional role in mindfulness meditation training and its salutary mechanisms of action, extant empirical evidence is mixed and limited. In the proposed study, we propose to test whether 6 to 7-days mindfulness meditation retreats (N=90), relative to a wait-list control condition (N=45), will impact internal attentional processes or attention to internal experience (e.g., thoughts and bodily sensations); and whether these internal attentional change processes predict salutary outcomes of mindfulness meditation retreats. Participants will complete tasks designed to measure attention to internal experience before and then immediately following the retreat, as well as self-report measures of salutary outcomes before and 2-weeks post-retreat. Matched controls will complete the tasks at parallel time-points in the lab.
详细描述
Broadly, the investigators first aim is to assess whether mindfulness meditation retreat will yield significant improvement at post-relative to pre-retreat, compared to matched control, in each of these internal attentional processes: (i) enhanced ability to disengage from negative self-referential thoughts; (ii) reduced selection bias to negative self-referential thoughts; (iii) enhanced interoceptive attention and sensibility to a broader range of locations, intensities and hedonic tones of bodily sensations in response to negative and neutral self-referential thoughts; as well as (iv) enhanced mindful awareness during mindfulness meditation as expressed in the objects and temporal dynamics of mindful awareness. Second, the investigators will assess whether each of the aforementioned internal attentional change processes from pre- to post-retreat, will predict change from pre- to 2-weeks post-retreat in mindful awareness in daily living, mindfulness-related processes (e.g., decentering), and mental health. Third, investigators will assess whether previous meditation experience moderates these effects.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Retreat Group: Adults who register to participate in a 6 to 7-days mindfulness meditation retreats.
- •Control Group: Adults participants will be recruited from social media and local community of meditation practitioners, and will be matched to the retreat group by gender, age and level of experience in meditation.
排除标准
- •Younger than 18 years-old and older than 65-years.
- •Have first language other than Hebrew.
- •Self-report lack of fluency in speaking or understanding Hebrew-language.
- •Not having access to a computer and headphones with a microphone (for completing behavioral tasks).
- •Participation in a retreat 1 month before the first primary outcomes assessment or during the weeks between the second primary outcomes assessment and the 2-weeks follow-up.
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Simulated Thought Paradigm - Body Map Task
时间窗: pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention
The Simulated Thought Paradigm integrated into the Body Map Task will be used to measure change, from pre-intervention to post-intervention, in interoceptive attention via subjective assessment (i.e. sensibility) of the frequency, location, intensity and hedonic tone of bodily sensations, as well as change in emotional experience (5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5), in response to negative and neutral self-referential thoughts.
Change in Simulated Thought Paradigm - Digit Categorization Task
时间窗: pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention
The Simulated Thought Paradigm integrated into the Digit Categorization Task will be used to measure change, from pre-intervention to post-intervention, in internal attentional disengagement from simulated negative and neutral self-referential thoughts to a digit categorization (odd or even) task. Attentional disengagement will be computed via difference in reaction time to respond to digit target between negative and neutral self-referential thoughts. A positive score reflects greater difficulty to disengage from negative vs. neutral stimuli.
Change in Simulated Thought Paradigm - Dichotic 1-Back Task
时间窗: pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention
The Simulated Thought Paradigm integrated into the Dichotic 1-Back Task will be used to measure change, from pre-intervention to post-intervention, in internal selection between concurrent simulated negative and neutral self-referential thoughts. Biased selective internal attention will be computed via subtracting behavioral responding (e.g., accuracy) between concurrent negative and neutral self-referential thoughts. A positive bias score reflects greater selective attention to negative vs. neutral stimuli.
Change in Mindful Awareness Task
时间窗: pre-intervention, 0-2 days post-intervention
The Mindful Awareness Task is a behavioral paradigm will be used to measure change, from pre-intervention to post-intervention, in the objects and temporal dynamics of mindful awareness during mindfulness meditation. MAT scores include meta-awareness, quantified as the frequency of meta-awareness (i.e., awareness of the processes in consciousness); mindful awareness of body, mind, thoughts, pleasant and unpleasant hedonic tone, quantified as the frequency of mindful awareness of these experiential objects; mindful awareness time, quantified as the amount of time each participant engages in mindful awareness (in seconds); sustained mindful awareness, quantified as the average amount of time each participant sustains mindful-awareness without significant interruptions (in seconds); and latency to re-engagement in mindful awareness, quantified as the average amount of time it takes each participant to re-engage in mindful awareness following the onset of mindless states (in seconds).
次要结局
- Change in Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Well-Being Index (WHO-5)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Sussex-Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale (SOCS-S)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in State International - Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Short Form (State I-PANAS-SF)(immediately after MAT administration pre-intervention, immediately after MAT administration post-intervention)
- Change in Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Metacognitive Processes of Decentering Scale - Trait (MPod-t)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Mind Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in The Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in The 7-Item Nonattachment Scale (NAS-7)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Rumination Response Scale (RRS) - Brooding subscale(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in The 16 item Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Trait International - Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Short Form (I-PANAS-SF)(pre-intervention, 2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in Toronto Mindfulness Scale - Curiosity subscale (TMS-C)(immediately after MAT administration pre-intervention, immediately after MAT administration post-intervention)
- Change in Experience Sampling of Attitudinal Qualities of Mindfulness During Meditation(immediately after MAT administration pre-intervention, immediately after MAT administration post-intervention)
- Impact of Peak Meditative Experience Scale (I-PMES)(2-weeks post-intervention)
- Change in State Mindfulness Scale (SMS)(immediately after MAT administration pre-intervention, immediately after MAT administration post-intervention)
- Change in Experience Sampling of Phenomenological States During Meditation(immediately after MAT administration pre-intervention, immediately after MAT administration post-intervention)
- Change in Metacognitive Processes of Decentering Scale - State (MPod-s)(immediately after MAT administration pre-intervention, immediately after MAT administration post-intervention)
- Change in Experience Sampling of Mindful Awareness During Meditation(immediately after MAT administration pre-intervention, immediately after MAT administration post-intervention)
- Peak Meditative Experience Scale (PMES)(0-2 days post-intervention)