Examining the Feasibility of a Mindfulness Booster Course for Healthcare Staff Who Attended an 8-week Mindfulness Course

Canterbury Christ Church University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stress

Treatments

Behavioral: Usual care

Behavioral: Mindfulness Booster Course

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05721716

DClinPsychol21KWalker

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness booster course for UK healthcare staff who have previously participated in an eight-week mindfulness course. The measures of feasibility and acceptability that will be examined include: 1. the ease with which participants are recruited to the clinical trial; 2. the extent to which participants choose to remain in the mindfulness booster course; 3. the extent to which participants choose to remain in the clinical trial; 4. how acceptable the participants find the mindfulness booster course; 5. the level of outcome measure completion; 6. whether there is a preliminary indication that the course may reduce stress. Participants will be randomly allocated to either a mindfulness booster course or a control group, who will be encouraged to continue taking care of their wellbeing as they normally would. Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires at three time-points.

Full description

This pilot randomised controlled trial seeks to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness booster course for UK National Health Service staff who have previously completed an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention. Participants will be randomised to either the 8-week mindfulness booster course or a control group, in which participants will be encouraged to continue taking care of their wellbeing as they normally would. A battery of self-report measures will be administered online at baseline (weeks 0-1), mid-intervention (week 7), and post-intervention (weeks 11-12). The indices of feasibility and acceptability that will be examined include: 1. ease of recruitment; 2. participant retention in the intervention; 3. participant retention in the study; 4. acceptability of the intervention; 5. outcome measure completion; 6. whether there is a preliminary signal of efficacy on the primary outcome measure (stress). These indices will be compared to progression criteria (which are detailed in the outcome measures section) to determine whether the intervention is sufficiently feasible and acceptable to progress to a full-scale RCT in future research.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

UK National Health Service staff member from the South-East, South-West and/or London, including, but not limited to, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust;
have completed an 8-week staff mindfulness course within the past three-years (individuals will be considered to have "completed" a mindfulness course if they attended four or more sessions (Simpson et al., 2017; Verweij et al., 2018)).

Exclusion criteria