Effects of Mindfulness Training on Emotional Care

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Completed

• Conditions: Mental Health Issue
• Interventions: Behavioral: 8-week mindfulness program

• Registration Number: NCT04518631
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong

Brief Summary

Teachers in Hong Kong are susceptible to professional stress and its associated psychosomatic illnesses. To enhance teachers' well-being, mindfulness training is conducted in local schools. The present study is a randomized controlled trial to investigate 1) the effects of mindfulness training on teachers' well-being (i.e. general health, positive affect, life satisfaction, stress, negative affect), and 2) the mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of mindfulness (i.e. emotional care strategies including anchoring, decentering, and acceptance). Participants will be randomized to either intervention (8-week .b Foundations/ .begin course) or waiting-list control condition. They will complete survey before (baseline), after (post-intervention), and two-months (follow-up) after the intervention.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-07-01
• Study First Submitted: 2020-08-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-08-15
• Study First Posted: 2020-08-19
• Primary Completion: 2021-03-31
• Study Completion: 2021-03-31
• Status Verified: 2021-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-06
• Last Update Posted: 2021-09-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 299

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 18 years old or above
• Working in local schools or education institutions
• Willing to participate in mindfulness training voluntarily

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Exclusion Criteria

• Experiencing severe or unstable mental health condition currently
• Completed 8-week mindfulness training previously
• Unwilling to go by random assignment

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
8-week mindfulness program	8-week mindfulness program	8-week .b Foundations course

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Decentering	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Non Reactivity Subscale of Chinese Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-C), 4 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Stress	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), 10 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in General Health	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), 12 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Anchoring	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	5 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Acceptance	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Acceptance subscale of Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R), 3 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Negative affect	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), 4 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Distraction	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	5 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Mindfulness	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R), 12 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Life satisfaction	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Life Satisfaction Questionnaire, 5 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Positive affect	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), 4 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Reappraisal	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Reappraisal subscale of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), 6 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)
Change in Suppression	Baseline, Immediately after intervention, Two-months after intervention	Suppression subscale of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), 4 items, 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Jockey Club "Peace and Awareness" Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong; 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong