Examining the Feasibility of a Mindfulness Booster Course for Healthcare Staff Who Attended an 8-week Mindfulness Course

NCT ID: NCT05721716

Last Updated: 2023-08-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-03-20
• Study Completion Date: 2023-08-01

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness booster course for UK healthcare staff who have previously participated in an eight-week mindfulness course. The measures of feasibility and acceptability that will be examined include: 1. the ease with which participants are recruited to the clinical trial; 2. the extent to which participants choose to remain in the mindfulness booster course; 3. the extent to which participants choose to remain in the clinical trial; 4. how acceptable the participants find the mindfulness booster course; 5. the level of outcome measure completion; 6. whether there is a preliminary indication that the course may reduce stress. Participants will be randomly allocated to either a mindfulness booster course or a control group, who will be encouraged to continue taking care of their wellbeing as they normally would. Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires at three time-points.

Detailed Description

This pilot randomised controlled trial seeks to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness booster course for UK National Health Service staff who have previously completed an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention. Participants will be randomised to either the 8-week mindfulness booster course or a control group, in which participants will be encouraged to continue taking care of their wellbeing as they normally would. A battery of self-report measures will be administered online at baseline (weeks 0-1), mid-intervention (week 7), and post-intervention (weeks 11-12). The indices of feasibility and acceptability that will be examined include: 1. ease of recruitment; 2. participant retention in the intervention; 3. participant retention in the study; 4. acceptability of the intervention; 5. outcome measure completion; 6. whether there is a preliminary signal of efficacy on the primary outcome measure (stress). These indices will be compared to progression criteria (which are detailed in the outcome measures section) to determine whether the intervention is sufficiently feasible and acceptable to progress to a full-scale RCT in future research.

Conditions

Stress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Mindfulness Booster Course

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mindfulness Booster Course

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The mindfulness booster course will consist of eight 30-minute sessions, which participants will be asked to commit to. These will be online and occur weekly for 8-weeks. Within these sessions, there will be a 15-minute mindfulness practice followed by a 15-minute discussion. This discussion time will involve reflecting on the mindfulness practice and speaking about between-session practice. Participants will be encouraged to practice mindfulness for home work between the sessions.

Usual care

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will be encouraged to continue with whatever activities they usually undertake to manage their stress and support their wellbeing.

Treatment as Usual Control

Group Type: OTHER

Usual care

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will be encouraged to continue with whatever activities they usually undertake to manage their stress and support their wellbeing.

Interventions

Mindfulness Booster Course

The mindfulness booster course will consist of eight 30-minute sessions, which participants will be asked to commit to. These will be online and occur weekly for 8-weeks. Within these sessions, there will be a 15-minute mindfulness practice followed by a 15-minute discussion. This discussion time will involve reflecting on the mindfulness practice and speaking about between-session practice. Participants will be encouraged to practice mindfulness for home work between the sessions.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Usual care

Participants will be encouraged to continue with whatever activities they usually undertake to manage their stress and support their wellbeing.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• UK National Health Service staff member from the South-East, South-West and/or London, including, but not limited to, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust;
• have completed an 8-week staff mindfulness course within the past three-years (individuals will be considered to have "completed" a mindfulness course if they attended four or more sessions (Simpson et al., 2017; Verweij et al., 2018)).

Exclusion Criteria

• currently on sick leave;
• planning on undertaking another 8-week mindfulness course;
• have previously found practicing mindfulness distressing.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Canterbury Christ Church University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Fergal Jones, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Canterbury Christ Church University & Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Clara Strauss, DPhil

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & University of Sussex

Locations

Sussex Mindfulness Centre

Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Countries

United Kingdom

Other Identifiers

DClinPsychol21KWalker

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id