Mindfulness Training in Military Spouses

NCT ID: NCT03308344

Last Updated: 2019-08-06

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

106 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-10-02

Study Completion Date

2019-07-31

Brief Summary

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This project aims to contextualize the delivery of mindfulness training for military spouses and evaluate its effectiveness on measures of executive functions and psychological well-being.

Detailed Description

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In addition to psychological and physical health challenges that military service members face, military deployment is known to have deleterious effects on the entire family unit. The January 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reported medical data from over 250,000 wives of deployed soldiers. These women suffered from clinically significant levels of anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, and adjustment disorders. Thus, the psychological profile of military spouses sadly parallels that of the military servicemembers. Unfortunately, the effect of deployment on the psychological health in military spouses is largely unstudied, and very few resilience-building programs are available for military families.

Prior research showed that mindfulness training (MT), as a resilience-building program in civilian and military servicemembers, can effectively protect against degradation in of executive functions (i.e., attention, working memory) and benefit psychological well-being over high-demand intervals. While research evidence mounts that MT is beneficial for service members, there is almost no research examining the impact of MT on military spouses' cognitive functioning and psychological well-being.

The present study aims to investigate if MT may successfully benefit cognitive functioning and psychological well-being in military spouses.

Conditions

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Psychological Stress

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants will be assigned into three groups: (i) a mindfulness training with spouse trainers (MT-ST, n = 60) that will receive the training from peers who underwent an extensive training practicum; (ii) a mindfulness training with mindfulness expert trainer group (MT-ME, n = 30) that will receive the training from a mindfulness expert trainer; and (ii) a wait-list control group (WLC, n = 30) that will be tested before and after a no-training interval and may receive MT at a later time after their second testing if they are interested.
Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Spouse Trainers (MT-ST)

Participants will engage in a short-form mindfulness training delivered by their peers who underwent an extensive training practicum.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mindfulness training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The present MT program includes topics related to mindfulness, emotion regulation, and connection. It will be delivered in short, weekly sessions.

Wait-list control

Participants will be tested before and after a no-training interval and may receive training at a later time.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Mindfulness Expert (MT-ME)

Participants will engage in a short-form mindfulness training delivered by an expert mindfulness trainer.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mindfulness training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The present MT program includes topics related to mindfulness, emotion regulation, and connection. It will be delivered in short, weekly sessions.

Interventions

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Mindfulness training

The present MT program includes topics related to mindfulness, emotion regulation, and connection. It will be delivered in short, weekly sessions.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* English-speaking
* Being in a relationship or married to U.S. Army active-duty member or veteran.

Exclusion Criteria

* A non-controlled severe medical disease that might interfere with the performance in the study.
* Any other condition that the investigator might deem problematic for the inclusion of the volunteer in a training study of this nature.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Miami

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Amishi Jha

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Amishi Jha, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Miami

Locations

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University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Jha AP, Morrison AB, Dainer-Best J, Parker S, Rostrup N, Stanley EA. Minds "at attention": mindfulness training curbs attentional lapses in military cohorts. PLoS One. 2015 Feb 11;10(2):e0116889. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116889. eCollection 2015.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25671579 (View on PubMed)

Jha AP, Stanley EA, Kiyonaga A, Wong L, Gelfand L. Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. Emotion. 2010 Feb;10(1):54-64. doi: 10.1037/a0018438.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20141302 (View on PubMed)

Mansfield AJ, Kaufman JS, Marshall SW, Gaynes BN, Morrissey JP, Engel CC. Deployment and the use of mental health services among U.S. Army wives. N Engl J Med. 2010 Jan 14;362(2):101-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0900177.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20071699 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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20120295

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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