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Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Healthcare Workers

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Yale-NUS College

Status

Completed

Conditions

Psychological Burnout

Treatments

Behavioral: Cognitive training
Behavioral: Mindfulness Practice

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04936893
YaleNUS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the effects of mindfulness practice administered using a mobile app on psychological health among health care workers in Singapore.

Full description

Research has shown that health workers are particularly at risk of experiencing heightened risks of burnout and psychological symptoms when dealing with a health pandemic, including the current COVID-19 pandemic (Lai et al., 2020; Tan et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2009). The increased risk reflects an urgent need to develop feasible psychological interventions to mitigate burnout and psychological symptoms among health workers. The present study aims to examine the effects of a brief mindfulness intervention delivered using a mobile application (HeadSpace) on psychological functioning in the context of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of health workers in Singapore. A total of 80 health workers will be recruited and randomly assigned to using a mindfulness practice app or a cognitive games app daily over a period of 21 days. They will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention, and at one-month follow-up on depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, post-traumatic stress symptoms, trait mindfulness, self-compassion, sleep quality, working memory, and fear of COVID-19 infection. Results of the study will have implications on developing cost-effective interventions to mitigate psychological symptoms among health workers in the context of heightened pandemic-related stress.

Enrollment

80 patients

Sex

All

Ages

21 to 60 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • aged between 21 and 60
  • being a health care worker based in Singapore
  • proficient in English
  • owns a smartphone (iOS or Android) with Wi-Fi or data access.

Exclusion criteria

-Regular mindfulness practice, defined by practicing a minimum of two to three times a week for 10 to 15 minutes each time within the past six months.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

80 participants in 2 patient groups

HeadSpace Mobile App
Experimental group
Description:
Mindfulness practice
Treatment:
Behavioral: Mindfulness Practice
Lumosity Mobile App
Active Comparator group
Description:
Cognitive games
Treatment:
Behavioral: Cognitive training

Trial contacts and locations

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