Effectiveness of MBSR Among Teachers at Upper Secondary Schools and Schools of Health and Social Care

University of Aarhus

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stress Reduction; Mental Well-being

Treatments: Behavioral: Online MBSR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04558008

07072020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of online Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction among school teachers in Danish upper secondary schools and schools of health and social care on mental well-being in the teachers and their students. The study is a cluster-randomised trial including 43 schools; 76 teachers; 1.000 students.

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• School teacher at a Danish upper secondary school or school of health and social care that commit to participate in a trial aiming to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of 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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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Online 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: Online MBSR

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual practice