Loving Kindness Meditation Among Adults 50 Years and Older

Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Loneliness

Treatments: Behavioral: Loving-kindness Meditation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05350449

UNLV-2022-148

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the feasibility and acceptability of loving-kindness meditation among adults 50 years and older. It will also examine the benefits of this intervention and compare the outcomes between two groups (intervention and wait-list control).

Full description

The main aim of the research is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the Loving-kindness meditation intervention among adults 50 years or older. It will also examine the intervention's preliminary impact on loneliness, self-compassion, cognitive function, and psychological well-being. The study will use a randomized controlled trial with waitlist control.

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults 50 years or older living in Southern Nevada

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive or language barrier that would make it difficult to understand and sign the informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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59 participants in 2 patient groups

Loving kindness meditation

Experimental group

Description:

Loving-kindness meditation is a contemplative practice that focuses on developing compassion for oneself and others through mindfulness. Participants will be shown the recorded loving-kindness training video during the first week of the intervention. Participants will be encouraged to use the mp3 device with guided meditation recording to practice mindfulness meditation for 20-25 minutes every day for 30 days. We will also provide participants with a diary to record their daily meditation experiences. There will be weekly check in. At 60 days we will do a follow-up data collection.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Loving-kindness Meditation

Waitlist control

No Intervention group

Description:

The arm will eventually get the intervention.