Mindfulness and Romantic Relationship Quality (MINDv2)

University of Delaware

Status and phase: Enrolling; Phase 1

Conditions: The Focus of the Study is Romantic Relationship Quality

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04177836

1R21AT010515-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overarching aim of this proposal is to experimentally test whether a mindfulness intervention improves relationship quality. Romantic couples from the community will be randomly assigned to one of two arms: mindfulness vs. active control. Both interventions will be completed on a smart-phone for 14 days using identical intervention activities as our existing published research. After the 14-day period, couples will attend a lab visit and provide relationship quality data.

Full description

Romantic couples from the community will be randomly assigned to one of two arms: mindfulness vs. active control. Thus, both partners will either complete the mindfulness intervention (developed to increase attention towards and acceptance of current experiences) or a relaxation-based active treatment comparison intervention (developed to parallel the structure of the mindfulness intervention without the attention towards or acceptance of present experiences). Both interventions will be completed on a smart-phone for 14 days using identical intervention activities as our existing published research, which demonstrated that the mindfulness intervention reduced stress reactivity and improved daily well-being. After the 14-day period, couples will attend a lab visit and provide multi-method relationship quality data.

Enrollment: 274 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Couples living together for at least 2 years
• Both partners must be fluent in English
• Both partners cannot already engage in regular systematic mind-body practice (>2 times per week).
• Both partners must have daily access to an internet-enabled smartphone to complete the intervention

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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274 participants in 2 patient groups

MIndfulness

Experimental group

Description:

This arm was developed to increase attention towards and acceptance of current experiences.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness intervention

Active Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

This arm is a relaxation-based active treatment comparison intervention, developed to parallel the structure of the mindfulness intervention without the attention towards or acceptance of present experiences.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness intervention