Self-control and Mindfulness Within Ambulatorily Assessed Network Systems Across Health Related Domains (SMASH)

Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Regulation

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02647801

2015-JGU-psychEK-011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this trial is to test a novel network approach (Bringmann et al., 2013), which enables to investigate the complex, interdependent network of self-control and its influences in everyday life. By adding an intervention to the network, such as mindfulness training, it is also possible to explore the way mindfulness changes connection strengths between network variables.

For six weeks, an ambulatory assessment and additional seven weekly laboratory sessions are conducted with 120 students from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz who are randomized to a control (n=60) or intervention condition (n=60). Pre and post measurement sessions take place to assess self-reported trait self-control and mindfulness and a behavioral measure of mindfulness (Levinson, Stoll, Kindy, Merry & Davidson 2014). Participants of both the experimental and control condition come to five weekly lab meetings in which they fill out questionnaires to assess changes in self-reported self-control and mindfulness. But only participants of the experimental condition take part in weekly computer based mindfulness trainings. During the ambulatory assessment, participants complete questionnaires six times a day via mobile phones that are randomly prompted and answer questions about state self-control, motivation, affect, and current situation.

Enrollment: 137 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• understanding and speaking German
• aged between 18 and 65 years
• knowledge about how to use a mobile phone

Exclusion criteria

• psychological disease
• mental or somatic disability that could impair the usage of a mobile phone

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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137 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group comes to weekly laboratory meetings and practices mindfulness. Participants also fill out self-report questionnaires which assess self-control and mindfulness.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group comes to weekly laboratory meetings and fills out self-report questionnaires which assess self-control and mindfulness. No mindfulness training is carried out.