Feasibility of Online Based Mindfulness Interventions During COVID-19 Outbreak

Not Applicable

Withdrawn

• Conditions: Stress
• Interventions: Behavioral: online mindfulness group

• Registration Number: NCT04346082
• Lead Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong

Brief Summary

The investigators had designed weekly mindfulness sessions (details see intervention below), which is free-of-charge and will be made available to general public who feel distressed during the outbreak of COVID-19. Face-to-face delivery of mindfulness interventions was not possible due to mandatory quarantine. The investigators hypothesize that this intervention is feasible and acceptable by the participants. As secondary outcomes, the investigators also hypothesize that the intervention can reduce stress, depressive and anxiety symptoms and enhance participants' sense of coherence

This will be a quasi-experimental study. Participants will be invited to fill in an online informed consent and questionnaire around 2 days before each mindfulness online session and another set of questionnaire immediately after each session (see outcome measures). Participants will be identified by their e-mail and therefore serial data could be obtained.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-10
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-15
• Study Start: 2020-08-01
• Status Verified: 2021-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-07-20
• Last Update Posted: 2021-07-27
• Primary Completion: 2021-07-30
• Study Completion: 2021-07-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: WITHDRAWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• at least 18 years of old,
• able to speak and communicate in Cantonese
• can read Chinese or English (because they will be asked to fill in an online questionnaire).

Exclusion Criteria

• actively suicidal,
• currently abusing restricted psychoactive substances
• diagnosed to have an active psychotic disorder and self-reported active psychotic symptoms (including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and dementia).

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
online mindfulness group	online mindfulness group	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rate of recruitment	from recruitment to end of study, up to 1 year	the rate of recruitment to recruit participants
rate of attendence	from recruitment to end of study, up to 1 year	the number of attendance to the mindfulness online group

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21)	on recruitment, after each online mindfulness sessions (weekly) until end of study, up to 1 year	Depression, anxiety and stress will be measured using the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), which was validated in Chinese population with high internal consistency. The 21-item DASS-21 has three subscales designed to measure depression, anxiety and stress, with each subscale containing 7 items. Participants are required to rate each statement in DASS-21 using a 4-point Likert scale from "did not apply to me at all" to "applied to me very much or most of the time" in the prior one week. Higher scores represent higher level of psychological distress.
Sense of Coherence Scale	on recruitment, after each online mindfulness sessions (weekly) until end of study, up to 1 year	Sense of Coherence (SOC) will be assessed by the 13-item Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-13) based on Antonovsky (1987)'s measurement of the comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness of a person's life events . Participants will rate each statement in SOC-13 on a 7-point Likert scale from "very often" to "very seldom or never". SOC-13 has been validated in Chinese population with high internal consistency. The higher the score, the higher the sense of coherence

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

School of public health and primary care; 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong