Can Applying the Science of Habit Formation to Contemplative Practice Improve Outcomes
NCT ID: NCT05866718
Last Updated: 2025-12-31
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
497 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2023-06-14
2024-09-22
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Specific Aim 2: Determine whether SCT+HABITS, relative to SCT, will experience increased self-compassion and self-compassion automaticity, and reduced stress and psychopathology. Hypothesis 2. SCT+HABITS will promote greater increases in self-compassion and self-compassion automaticity, and greater reductions in stress and psychopathology from baseline to 3-month, to 6-month follow-up.
Specific Aim 3: Assess whether greater baseline to 3-month follow-up increases in practice automaticity mediate the association between SCT+HABITS and baseline to 6-month follow-up increases in (a) self-compassion and (b) self-compassion automaticity, as well as reductions in (c) stress and (d) psychopathology. Hypothesis 3. Greater baseline to 3-month follow-up increases in practice automaticity will mediate the association between the SCT+HABITS group and baseline to 6-month follow-up increases in (a) self-compassion and (b) self-compassion automaticity, as well as reductions in (c) stress and (d) psychopathology.
Exploratory Aim: Evaluate the barriers, facilitators, and acceptability of SCT+HABITS and SCT alone. This aim will be addressed via qualitative analyses to characterize barriers and facilitators to habit formation, and the proportion of participants in each condition (SCT+HABITS and SCT alone) who noted each type of barrier and facilitator. Participants will self-report on acceptability and feasibility via questionnaire. Then, the investigators will examine whether SCT+HABITS and SCT alone will meet or exceed the established criteria for acceptability and feasibility.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Self-Compassionate Touch Intervention Alone
All participants will receive the self-compassion intervention after completing their baseline assessment, which will contain the same instructions used in the initial study (see NCT05199779).
Self-Compassionate Touch Intervention
Participants will be taught the micropractice (\<20-second/day personal practice) via video recording.
Self-Compassionate Touch Intervention Plus Habit Formation Tools
SCT+HABITS participants will receive the abovementioned procedures, and will also receive evidence-based tools for forming habits.
Self-Compassionate Touch Intervention
Participants will be taught the micropractice (\<20-second/day personal practice) via video recording.
Habit Formation Tools
Participants will receive evidence-based tools for promoting habit-formation.
Interventions
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Self-Compassionate Touch Intervention
Participants will be taught the micropractice (\<20-second/day personal practice) via video recording.
Habit Formation Tools
Participants will receive evidence-based tools for promoting habit-formation.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* English language proficiency.
* Able and willing to give informed consent.
* Resides in the United States of America
Exclusion Criteria
* Does not personally own a smartphone device
* Not able/willing to participate in and/or complete the baseline assessments
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Mind and Life Institute, Hadley, Massachusetts
OTHER
The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley
UNKNOWN
University of California, Berkeley
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Eli S Susman
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of California, Berkeley
Locations
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University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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2021-12-14924-2
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id