Implementing a School-based Mindfulness Curriculum

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Behavioral: mindfulness matters

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05855564

School

Details and patient eligibility

About

The outcomes and implementation processes of the school based mindfulness program, as a universal prevention program in classroom as and support group programs for students with special education needs will be investigated. The study of classroom program will apply quasi-experimental design, comparing the pretest and posttest of seven primary schools with implementation of mindfulness programs with three schools with ordinary school activities only. A total of 800 students will be recruited to receive an eight session mindfulness program in classroom as a universal prevention program. Ten support group for students with special education needs will apply mindfulness programs, and its outcome will be evaluated using repeated time measures.

Enrollment: 800 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• students in participating schools
• students with parent's consent

Exclusion criteria

• student without parent's consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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800 participants in 1 patient group

School-based Mindfulness program

Experimental group

Description:

Eight session of mindfulness-based program based on Mindfulness Matters developed by Eline Snel

Treatment:

Behavioral: mindfulness matters