Brief Mindfulness Based Intervention to Improve Psychological Wellbeing

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: Progressive muscle relaxation; Behavioral: brief mindfulness based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04656626

Mindfullness during a pandemic

Details and patient eligibility

About

our aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual brief mindfulness based interventions on psychological wellbeing, resiliency, and anxiety of frontline HCP to cope for (COVID19) stressors

Full description

Our specific objectives are: To measure frontline HCP's level of anxiety, resilience, and how mindfulness based interventions affect anxiety and psychological resilience of HCP.

Enrollment: 146 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COVID19 frontline health care providers namely, physicians, nurses and respiratory therapist at 2 main hospitals in the eastern province of KSA

Exclusion criteria

1. History of psychotic disorder,
2. Substance abuse or dependence within the last 6 months
3. Current severe neurotic disorder, severe depression or severe anxiety.
4. Concurrent psychotherapy.
5. Significant personality disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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146 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

COVID19 Frontline Health Care Providers recieving mindfulness intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This arm will receive mindfulness audios (randomized and double blinded)

Treatment:

Behavioral: brief mindfulness based intervention

COVID19 Frontline Health Care Providers receiving progressive muscle relaxation

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This arm will receive progressive muscle relaxation audios (randomized and double blinded)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Progressive muscle relaxation