Project MiCRIM- Sleep and Stress Intervention

Florida State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05384067

STUDY00002715

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of Project MiCRIM is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of an online 4-week mindfulness-based intervention that incorporates informational elements about sleep, mindfulness, thoughts, emotions, and acceptance using a control sample of Criminology and Criminal Justice majors as a proxy for Corrections officers.

Full description

The study will use a waitlist-control design to examine the effectiveness of a brief (4-week) online mindfulness-based intervention aimed at reducing stress and improving sleep quality. A proxy, convenience sample of 50 criminology majors will be recruited and randomized into the active intervention or waitlist condition. The intervention requires participants to complete one mindfulness education module every week for 4 weeks, and to practice a 15-minute formal guided mindfulness meditation at least five times per week across the 4 weeks. Participants will also be taught evidence-based sleep improvement techniques, will be provided education for when to use the techniques, and will be encouraged to implement the techniques to improve sleep. Validated self-report measures of stress, anxiety, mood, and sleep quality will be assessed pre- and post-intervention. Adherence to the mindfulness practice will be monitored online and self-report assessments of sleep technique implementation will be collected. Sleep patterns will be assessed using a Philips Respironics Spectrum 2 Actiwatch, which is a wrist-worn device that measures movement and light exposure and estimates sleep-wake patterns. Lastly, multiple saliva samples pre- and post-intervention will be collected and analyzed by ELISA with a multiplex cytokine assay. Cortisol, α-amylase, and the four analytes with known deleterious roles in cellular and behavioral stress responsiveness will be measured simultaneously: interleukin-1beta, interleukin-6, interleukin-8, and Tumour Necrosis Factor-alpha will be examined pre- and post-intervention.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Criminal Justice or Criminology major

Exclusion criteria

• Abnormal BMI (below 18.5 or above 30)
• self-reported sleep apnea, head injury, neurological problem, unstable mental health disorder, substance use disorder, psychosis, or current suicidal ideation or plan

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm will wear a sleep-monitoring device, complete questionnaires and participate in an online mindfulness component each week for the duration of this study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this arm will only wear a sleep-monitoring device and complete questionnaires.