Effects of Mindfulness Training on Emotional Care

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Issue

Treatments: Behavioral: 8-week mindfulness program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04518631

UHongKong(PandA)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Teachers in Hong Kong are susceptible to professional stress and its associated psychosomatic illnesses. To enhance teachers' well-being, mindfulness training is conducted in local schools. The present study is a randomized controlled trial to investigate 1) the effects of mindfulness training on teachers' well-being (i.e. general health, positive affect, life satisfaction, stress, negative affect), and 2) the mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of mindfulness (i.e. emotional care strategies including anchoring, decentering, and acceptance). Participants will be randomized to either intervention (8-week .b Foundations/ .begin course) or waiting-list control condition. They will complete survey before (baseline), after (post-intervention), and two-months (follow-up) after the intervention.

Enrollment: 299 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18 years old or above
• Working in local schools or education institutions
• Willing to participate in mindfulness training voluntarily

Exclusion criteria

• Experiencing severe or unstable mental health condition currently
• Completed 8-week mindfulness training previously
• Unwilling to go by random assignment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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299 participants in 2 patient groups

8-week mindfulness program

Experimental group

Description:

8-week .b Foundations course

Treatment:

Behavioral: 8-week mindfulness program

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in wait-list control group will receive the same intervention, two months after their counterparts in experimental group completed the intervention.