Mindfulness Training: the Effects of a Stress Reduction Program on Older Portuguese-speaking People in Luxembourg (MEDITAGING)

University of Luxembourg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mindfulness; Healthy Aging

Treatments: Behavioral: MBSR; Behavioral: HPP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05615337

ULuxembourg

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims to investigate the MBSR feasibility and its effects in old Portuguese-speaking adults living in Luxemburg.

This study will be a two-arm randomized-double blinded-controlled study, including 90 healthy older adults. The MBSR will be conducted in groups over a total of eight weeks, incorporating weekly meetings, a retreat of 4 hours, and extra activities to be practiced at home. The active control condition will be a program with different components such as painting, nutrition information, physical activity, cognitive enhancement, risk factors for dementia, and health promotion. Neuropsychological assessments will be conducted at baseline, immediately after and one-month post-intervention. The researchers will also do pre-post salivary cortisol and resting heart rate variability analyses, as surrogate measures to assess stress level.

Enrollment: 89 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Portuguese-speaker Migrants over 55 years old, residing in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg the Greater Region;
• Mastery of written and spoken Portuguese;
• Subjects without cognitive impairment (The Mini Mental State Examination - MMSE, cut-off of < 22 will be adopted since most of participants are expected to have low education level -Kochhann et al, 2010)
• Subjects with a full capacity of consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Previous (up to 2 years before) or actual weekly participation in formal meditation, yoga or mindfulness-based interventions
• Concomitant participation in other kind of enhancement intervention in group, e.g., cognitive training, psychological therapy
• Severe hearing or visual impairment (not corrected)
• Severe medical condition requiring intensive medical care that makes it difficult to participate in the group sessions
• Refusal to sign the informed consent
• Diagnosis of dementia
• Clinical neurodegenerative illness, psychotic disorder, unstable psychiatric condition which makes it difficult to participate in groups, posttraumatic stress disorder or history of trauma, individuals with acute psychosis, mania, suicidality or alcohol chronic or other substance abuse within the last 6 months (cutoff: 2 points at the Adult DSM-5 Self-Rated Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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89 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness-based stress reduction - MBSR

Experimental group

Description:

Traditional MBSR curriculum

Treatment:

Behavioral: MBSR

Health Promotion Program - HPP

Active Comparator group

Description:

the HPP has the same structure of MBSR, but training different components, not including mindfulness practice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HPP