Stress-physiology Coherence, Interoception, and Well-being Following Mindfulness Training or Tracking Time Spent on Mobile Device

NCT ID: NCT04125758

Last Updated: 2022-12-21

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-01-21

Study Completion Date

2022-11-30

Brief Summary

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Chronic stress has been shown to impact long-term emotional and physical health. When nearly three-quarters of Americans report stress at levels that exceed what they consider healthy, there is a desperate need to understand factors that contribute to effective stress regulation. This work seeks to develop a measure tied to awareness and acceptance of stress that has shown promise as a predictor of multiple markers of mental and physical well-being, understand how it relates to awareness of the body, and explore whether it can be trained to alleviate suffering and promote well-being. This study aims to 1) Conceptually replicate and extend previous findings linking greater stress-physiology coherence to higher well-being. 2) Assess whether awareness of physiology is associated with stress-physiology coherence. 3) Explore whether stress-physiology coherence can be trained through a brief mindfulness training intervention.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Not Seeking to Treat Any Conditions

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants are randomly assigned after a baseline testing to either a mindfulness intervention or control group.
Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors
Researchers involved in participant testing will not know the participant's group. Researchers conducting data analysis will not know data codes assigned to groups.

Study Groups

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Mindfulness training

Participants will listen to one to two 3-30 minute audio recordings each day for 4 weeks between study visits (28 days total) through the Healthy Minds @Work smartphone app and record when they listen to each recording on a paper log. The app will also collect data on which recordings, when, and for how long participants listen.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mindfulness training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief audio recordings discussing mindfulness or guided mindfulness practices.

Tracking time spent on mobile device

Participants will record how much time they estimate they have spent on their phone in the past 24 hours, each day for 4 weeks (28 days total) between study visits.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Tracking time spent on mobile device

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants will record each day how much time they estimate they spent on their smart phone in the past 24 hours.

Interventions

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Mindfulness training

Brief audio recordings discussing mindfulness or guided mindfulness practices.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Tracking time spent on mobile device

Participants will record each day how much time they estimate they spent on their smart phone in the past 24 hours.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Mindfulness, contemplative, meditation

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Age 18 to 65;
2. Comfortable reading, writing, and conversing in English
3. U.S. Citizen or permanent resident (for payment purposes)
4. Have a smartphone compatible with our study app

Exclusion Criteria

1. Significant past experience with meditation, yoga, tai chi, or qi gong;
2. Current or past psychotic disorder, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, or social phobia;
3. Current, severe major depressive episode;
4. Current, severe generalized anxiety;
5. Active prescription stimulant use (current or in the past month);
6. Active prescription beta-blocker, beta-agonist, anti-high blood pressure, or anti-anxiety medication use (current or in the past month);
7. Currently pregnant (due to physiological changes);
8. History of neurological disorder;
9. Currently diagnosed with high blood pressure, or heart murmur;
10. Have a pacemaker
11. Have participated in the Trier Social Stress Test previously
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Mind and Life Institute, Hadley, Massachusetts

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sasha Sommerfeldt, M.S.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Locations

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University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

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Other Identifiers

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A487400

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

L&S/PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

Protocol Version 6/10/2022

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

2019-0153

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id