Effects of Mindfulness Training on the Psychological Well-being of Preschoolers

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mindfulness-based Intervention for Preschoolers

Treatments: Behavioral: dots Curriculum

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05058365

UHongKong(JC PandA)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a mindfulness course on the psychological well-being of preschoolers (i.e., attention and impulsivity, prosocial behavior, empathy, emotion regulation and conduct). Participants will be randomized to either intervention (dots Curriculum) or wait-list control condition. Participants will complete a computerized task and they will be interviewed to complete a scenario test before (baseline) and after the intervention. The parents and class teacher will also be invited to complete a survey at baseline and after the intervention.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Aged 3-6 years
• Studying in pre-school settings

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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18 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: dots Curriculum

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.