Cognition and Health in Adolescents, Mindfulness as Prevention of Stress. (CHAMPS)

Region Skane

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cognition - Other; Personality; Sleep; Complete Psychological Check Up; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness intervention; Behavioral: Music relaxation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01457222

2011/345

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether mindfulness is useful as primary prevention for psychological health in highschool students, primarily related to stress, and whether mindfulness can improve cognitive function.

Full description

There is a general suspicion that stress and stress-related psychological disorders is growing in highschool students in Sweden. Mindfulness is a well researched therapeutical method for treating stress-related disorders. This study will first collect data on stress-related psychological symptoms by several well-validated surveys. The surveys will be made twice with 8 weeks in between to examine variability. After the second survey the population of highschool students will be randomly assigned to web-based mindfulness intervention, music relaxation intervention or control group. A third survey will be conducted after eight weeks of intervention and before and after an external stressor.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• High school student from designated school

Exclusion criteria

• None Swedish-speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 3 patient groups

Mindfulness

Active Comparator group

Description:

Mindfulness intervention 10 minutes daily

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness intervention

Music relaxation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Music intervention 10 minutes daily

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music relaxation

Business as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention - control group.