Meditation and Student Empathy

NCT ID: NCT03330665

Last Updated: 2022-02-18

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

78 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-11-01

Study Completion Date

2021-09-07

Brief Summary

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Physician empathy and reducing stress are major factors in attaining positive clinical outcomes for patients. Fostering empathy in medical students is particularly important as they are the future of the healthcare workforce and a trend of declining empathy during medical education may lead to decreased health care quality outcomes. Meditation may be an avenue to promote positive student attitudes including empathy, though very few studies have examined this idea through empirical research. Using validated measures, the Jefferson scale of empathy and the perceived stress scale, we seek to investigate whether use of a meditation app will be associated with higher levels of self-rated empathy and lower self-rated stress.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Stress Empathy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control

No meditation

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention

Meditate using headspace app 3 times a week

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Meditation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Meditate 3 times a week using headspace app

Interventions

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Meditation

Meditate 3 times a week using headspace app

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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MIndfullness

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

-Medical students from New York Institute of Technology

Exclusion Criteria

-Not a medical student
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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New York Institute of Technology

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

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BHS-1245

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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