Mindset Interventions to Facilitate Taking Cold Showers (MICS)

Jens Gaab

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological

Treatments: Other: Mindsets

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05497713

eknz2022-00952

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this trial is to determine whether mindsets sustain the feasibility of taking cold showers over a 3-month period. Secondary objectives are to determine potential effects on physical and mental well-being, sleep quality, skin and hair appearance, perceived illness, and related sickness absences from work.

Enrollment: 476 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The investigators will include

• healthy participants between 18 and 65 years of age,
• which do not take cold shower on a regular basis.
• As there are no known gender differences, participants of both female and male sex are included.

Exclusion criteria

The investigators will exclude

• pregnant or lactating women by self-report and
• subjects with cardiac, pulmonary or any other severe disease by self-report.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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476 participants in 5 patient groups

Control Condition

No Intervention group

Description:

No Mindset.

Egoistic x Proximal

Experimental group

Description:

Mindset: "This is my 5-minute exercise."

Treatment:

Other: Mindsets

Egoistic x Distal

Experimental group

Description:

Mindset: "I am doing this for my health."

Treatment:

Other: Mindsets

Altruistic x Proximal

Experimental group

Description:

Mindset: "I am saving one kilo of CO2: "

Treatment:

Other: Mindsets

Altruistic x Distal

Experimental group

Description:

Mindset: "I am doing this to fight climate change."

Treatment:

Other: Mindsets