Effectiveness of MBSR Among School Teachers

University of Aarhus

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stress Reduction; Mental Well-being

Treatments: Behavioral: MBSR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03886363

05032019

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction among school teachers in Danish schools on mental weii-being in the teachers and their pupils. The study is a cluster-randomised trial including 150 schools; 200 teachers; 4000 pupils from the five geographical regions in Denmark.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• School teacher at a Danish school that commit to participate in a trial aiming to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of ".b" (a school-based mindfulness programme)

Exclusion criteria

• acute treatment-demanding clinical depression or a diagnosis of psychosis or schizophrenia
• abuse of alcohol, drugs, medicine

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

MBSR

Experimental group

Description:

MBSR according to international standards (2.5 hours group session once a week in 8 weeks; a silence retreat day; and 45-60 minutes homework six days a week). Content in accordance with MBSR curriculum.

Treatment:

Behavioral: MBSR

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual practice