Mindfulness Based Resilience Training

NCT ID: NCT02419430

Last Updated: 2016-05-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2016-03-31

Brief Summary

The investigators aim to evaluate the Mindfulness Based Resilience Training (MBRT) intervention for Mayo Clinic employees in order to provide evidence for improved ability to cope with stress and decreased work-related burnout and stress-related symptoms as a result of MBRT training. In addition, the investigators aim to compare the effects of MBRT + smartphone sleep feedback, a smartphone resilience intervention + smartphone sleep feedback, or waitlist control +smartphone sleep feedback in a randomized clinical trial in a sample of 75 Mayo Clinic employees.

Detailed Description

The investigators aim to compare the effects of MBRT + smartphone sleep feedback, a smartphone resilience intervention + smartphone sleep feedback, or waitlist control +smartphone sleep feedback in a randomized clinical trial in a sample of 75 Mayo Clinic employees. Specific self-report outcomes include: well-being, stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue, resilience, self-compassion, and burn-out, assessed at pre-, post- and 3-month followup. Objective outcomes, derived from smartphone-driven self-monitoring, include sleep quality and emotional experiencing, assessed throughout the six-week intervention period. The investigators will explore whether changes in objectively measured sleep quality and emotional experiencing will mediate treatment effects on self-report outcomes. The investigators will also explore whether treatment effects are more robust in self-selected versus randomized groups by drawing on the investigators' existing data.

Conditions

Stress, Psychological

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

2 hours/week for 6 week, in classroom intervention involving mindfulness based resilience training.focused on mindfulness and self-compassion training, including body awareness, breath awareness, mindful movement, awareness of thoughts, and awareness of emotion. Core concepts included: normalizing experience of stress and changing one's relationship with an experience; learning to be a compassionate observer of self in order to appreciate the moment; recognizing undue efforts to control something that has already happened; shifting attention to felt body sense and away from the narrative; and redirecting attention to a value as a way of evoking positive states that enhance the present moment experience. Participants also use the smartphone to track their sleep and subjective well-being.

Phone application only

Phone application only

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Phone application only

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will track their sleep and subjective well-being and also choose one of the following weekly challenges, which is completed via smartphone interactions:

• Joys of Life
• Count your blessings
• Think differenc, feel better
• Exercising --> Happier

+ Exercising --> Sleep

• Pre-Sleep routine
• Eat that frog
• Mindful Meditation

Questionnaires

Questionnaires

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Questionnaires

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

At baseline, immediately after the last MBRT session (6 weeks) and again at 3 and 6 months, all participants will complete questionnaires, including: 1) WHO-5 Well-Being Index; 2) DASS-21; 3) VAS-Fatigue; 4) MBI-Human Services version; 5) Self-Compassion Scale; 6) Connor-Davidson 2-item resilience scale; 7) Compassion to others scale.

Interventions

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

2 hours/week for 6 week, in classroom intervention involving mindfulness based resilience training.focused on mindfulness and self-compassion training, including body awareness, breath awareness, mindful movement, awareness of thoughts, and awareness of emotion. Core concepts included: normalizing experience of stress and changing one's relationship with an experience; learning to be a compassionate observer of self in order to appreciate the moment; recognizing undue efforts to control something that has already happened; shifting attention to felt body sense and away from the narrative; and redirecting attention to a value as a way of evoking positive states that enhance the present moment experience. Participants also use the smartphone to track their sleep and subjective well-being.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Phone application only

Participants will track their sleep and subjective well-being and also choose one of the following weekly challenges, which is completed via smartphone interactions:

• Joys of Life
• Count your blessings
• Think differenc, feel better
• Exercising --> Happier

+ Exercising --> Sleep

• Pre-Sleep routine
• Eat that frog
• Mindful Meditation

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Questionnaires

At baseline, immediately after the last MBRT session (6 weeks) and again at 3 and 6 months, all participants will complete questionnaires, including: 1) WHO-5 Well-Being Index; 2) DASS-21; 3) VAS-Fatigue; 4) MBI-Human Services version; 5) Self-Compassion Scale; 6) Connor-Davidson 2-item resilience scale; 7) Compassion to others scale.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Stress subscale of the DASS-21 needs to be a score 5 or greater and

2. Must have a smart Phone, and

3. Ability to attend at least 5 complete sessions.

Exclusion :

1. Stress subscale of the DASS-21 less than 5.

2. Must have a smart Phone.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Arizona State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Mayo Clinic

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Cynthia M. Stonnington, M.D.

PI

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Cynthia Stonnington, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mayo Clinic

Locations

Mayo Clinic in Arizona

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

15-001492

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id