Culturally Tailored Mindfulness-Positive Psychological Intervention Using Virtual Reality

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Issue

Treatments: Behavioral: culturally tailored mindfulness-positive psychological intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06019416

23430

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to explore the experience of older Korean adults with anti-Asian racism in the U.S. and investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a virtual reality-based culturally tailored mindfulness-positive psychological intervention. Primary outcome is racism-related stress and secondary outcomes are negative mental health (e.g., anxiety, depressive symptoms, and anxiety) and positive psychological well-being (e.g., positive affect, optimism, life engagement, mindful attention awareness).

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• U.S. Korean Americans/immigrants
• ≥ 60 years of age
• Korean fluency
• no medical history of cognitive impairments (e.g., dementia or Alzheimer-related diseases)
• self-reported direct experience of discrimination as per the Everyday Discrimination Scale

Exclusion criteria

• severe cognitive impairment denoting dementia
• other ethnicities rather than Korean Americans/immigrants
• younger than 60 years of age
• cannot speak and read Korean
• have not experienced any discrimination
• serious sensory problems negating the use of virtual reality
• medical history of epilepsy, seizures, or vertigo
• experience in mindfulness or meditation-based programs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

As the intervention group, the participants should participate in three weekly scheduled mindfulness-positive psychological intervention sessions using virtual reality for 15 - 20 minutes per session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: culturally tailored mindfulness-positive psychological intervention

Waitlist group

No Intervention group

Description:

As the waitlist group, no treatment was given to the participants, while the intervention group participated in the mindfulness-positive psychological intervention for three weeks. After the three-week waiting period, the participants were contacted and asked to complete the post-measurements. After completion, the participants started with the three-week mindfulness-positive psychological intervention using virtual reality for 15 - 20 minutes. No further data was obtained from these participants after the completion of the program.