Mindfulness, Compassion and Self-compassion

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Issue

Treatments: Behavioral: 8-week mindfulness program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05046691

UHongKong (PandA)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Teachers in Hong Kong are susceptible to professional stress and its associated psychosomatic illnesses. To enhance teachers' well-being, mindfulness training is conducted in local schools. The present study is a randomized controlled trial to explore 1) the relationship between mindfulness, common humanity, self-compassion, compassion, and well-being of school teachers; 2) whether mindfulness and common humanity are the antecedents of self-compassion and compassion; 3) the conditions under which compassion and self-compassion are highly correlated. Participants will be randomized to either intervention (8-week .b Foundations course) or waiting-list control condition. They will complete an online survey before (baseline), after (post-intervention), and two-months (follow-up) after the intervention.

Enrollment: 328 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18 years old or above
• Working in local schools or education institutions
• Willing to participate in mindfulness training voluntarily

Exclusion criteria

• Experiencing severe or unstable mental health condition currently
• Completed 8-week mindfulness training previously
• Unwilling to go by random assignment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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328 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

8-week .b Foundations course

Treatment:

Behavioral: 8-week mindfulness program

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in wait-list control group will receive the same intervention, two months after their counterparts in experimental group completed the intervention.