Mindfulness in Pregnancy

UConn Health

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Mindfulness; Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness Auditory Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03635697

18-226-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to determine if a short audio clip about mindfulness implemented during NST appointments can lower pregnant women's levels of anxiety and depression. Subjects will be placed into either the intervention group or a control group. The intervention group will be asked to listen to a short audio clip on mindfulness during their NST appointments, and the control group will receive the standard of care during NST appointments. Subjects will be asked to take two surveys about anxiety and depression three times throughout the study: before the intervention, after the intervention, and 6 weeks postpartum.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• English as primary language
• less than 36 weeks gestational age
• at least 28 weeks gestational age

Exclusion criteria

• Use of psychoactive medications
• Any psychiatric diagnosis with dissociative, hallucinatory, and/or delusional features
• History of suicide attempt or current suicidal ideations
• Uncontrolled substance abuse in the last 6 months
• Patients with hearing loss
• More than three no-shows to NST appointments

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will listen to a short mindfulness audio clip during 6 of their NST appointments.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Auditory Intervention

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this group will have the regular standard of care for their NST appointments.