Transcendental Meditation for healthcare professionals
Phase 4
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/07/071645
- Lead Sponsor
- SMSIMSR, Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1. Fulltime healthcare providers, medical doctors or nurses involved in active patient care or direct hospital administration.
2. 18 years or older
3. Willing to complete both baseline and post-testing
4. In the active treatment group, willing to dedicate the time required to learn the TM technique and practicing it twice daily for 20 minutes each time
Exclusion Criteria
1. Already instructed in the TM technique
2. Currently unstable psychiatric symptoms as demonstrated by self-report, medical chart, or psychiatric hospitalizations in the past six months
3. Use of antipsychotic or ß blocker medications
4. current suicidal ideation
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Feasibility and acceptability of TMTimepoint: Baseline and 3-month follow up
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Perceived Stress Scale-4 (PSS-4) <br/ ><br>2. Generalised Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) <br/ ><br>3. Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well Being Scale (S-WEMWBS) <br/ ><br>4. The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) <br/ ><br>5. EEGTimepoint: Baseline and 3-month follow up