Mind-Body Skills Group for Graduate Students

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Depressive Symptoms; Mood Change; Anxiety Generalized

Treatments: Behavioral: Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05447689

22-02024481

Details and patient eligibility

About

Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group (I-MBS-G) is an 8-week group that teaches skills to build inner resources for effective mood management. This group incorporates a holistic approach to wellness through meditation and mindfulness practices, guided imagery, breath and body awareness, and relaxation techniques. Mind-body approaches have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing stress mood symptoms and improving quality of life. The study hypothesis is that the Mind-Body Skills taught in the group will reduce mood symptoms in graduate and medical students.

Full description

Study Design: This study will identify medical graduate students interested in participating in an Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group (I-MBS-G) to strengthen inner resources to effectively navigate complex and stressful daily events to promote mental and physical health and well-being. This study is a pilot randomized controlled trial; participants will be randomized to the intervention or control group. The control group will receive Treatment-As-Usual (TAU) and mind-body skills reading materials.

Primary Objective: Assess the feasibility and acceptability of an I-MBS-G intervention for medical graduate students using the MBSG Feedback Program Questionnaire.

Secondary Objectives: Assess preliminary effectiveness of I-MBS-G on anxiety symptoms (i.e., improvements on anxiety symptoms)

Exploratory Objectives: Assess preliminary effectiveness of I-MBS-G on depression symptoms (i.e., improvements on depression symptoms)

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students screened and admitted to the Student Mental Health Program.
• Age 18 or older
• A score of ≥ 4 on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7)
• Able to attend weekly meeting times

Exclusion criteria

• Active SI
• Current mania
• Active psychosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group: Treatment-As-Usual (TAU) and mind-body skills reading materials.