Efficacy of a Compassion Program for the Reduction of Psychological Distress in University Students
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 240
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21)
研究概览
简要总结
University life is a challenging period. College students are exposed to a large number of stressors such as increased workload, multitasking, new responsibilities, changes in sleep and eating habits, social stressors, financial concerns and future employability, unlimited access to technology, etc. The participation of some of them in unhealthy activities should also be noted.
There is sufficient evidence to affirm that high levels of stress cause different alterations in students, such as attention and concentration deficits, difficulties in memorizing and solving problems, low productivity and poor academic performance. Due to this, in addition to the psychological and social impact of said mental health problems, the academic functioning of the students decreases and the dropout rates increase, which represents a problem for themselves and for the institutions. On the other hand, students and future professionals in training run the risk of suffering burnout as a consequence of the chronic stress to which they are subjected, with the consequent negative effects on their future professional practice.
The main objective of the present research is to evaluate the efficacy of a six-week compassion program for the reduction of psychological distress in university students compared to an active control condition based on relaxation.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 30 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Age: 18-30 years old.
- •Study undergraduate or master's degrees at the University of Zaragoza.
- •Understand perfectly spoken and written Spanish.
- •Grant informed consent.
排除标准
- •Any diagnose of disease that may affect central nervous system (brain pathology traumatic brain injury, dementia, etc.).
- •Other psychiatric diagnoses or acute psychiatric illness (substance dependence or abuse, history of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, eating disorders, etc.) except for anxious pathology or personality disorders.
- •Any medical, infectious or degenerative disease that may affect mood, presence of delusional ideas or hallucinations consistent or not with mood, and suicide risk.
研究组 & 干预措施
Compassion condition
90-minute group sessions, held once a week over a space of 6 weeks, and is offered as an extra-curricular activity.
干预措施: Attachment-based compassion therapy (Behavioral)
Relaxation condition
90-minute group sessions, held once a week over a space of 6 weeks, and will be offered as an extracurricular activity.
干预措施: Relaxation program (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21)
时间窗: Six-months follow-up
In the compassion condition group
次要结局
- Positive and negative affect (PANAS)(Six-months follow-up)
- Sociodemographic data Gender, age, marital status, education, occupation, economical level(Baseline)
- Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)(Six-months follow-up)
- Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS)(Six-months follow-up)
研究者
Javier Garcia Campayo
Principal Investigator
Hospital Miguel Servet