Effects of an Online Meditation Course on Quality of Life

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life

Treatments: Behavioral: Meditation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04950543

EXPAN

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many interventions in the field of meditation are becoming increasingly popular and have gained worldwide acceptance over the past years, both in terms of health, but also psychological aspects. On the other hand, controversial and sometimes hypercritical positions are on the rise, questioning the positive effects of meditation on health due to the limited availability of high-quality scientific data. With regard to a large number of meditation interventions, the systematic exploration of procedures that have not yet been scientifically evaluated - also in online settings - is a meaningful contribution to meditation research.

Enrollment: 374 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Age: 18 years or older
• All persons registering for the online course
• Internet access
• Sufficient language skills, as well as cognitive and physical abilities, to participate in an online survey lasting approximately 30 minutes
• Active consent to the online consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Failure to provide informed consent to participate in the study

Trial design

374 participants in 1 patient group

Meditation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation