Short Practices Well-being Study

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Well-Being, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: Meditation practices; Other: Internet-as-usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06165497

EDUC/COUNSELING PSYCH (Other Identifier)

A171600 (Other Identifier)

Protocol Version 11/20/2023 (Other Identifier)

2023-1324

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this research study is to better understand the effects of short practices on well-being.

Participants will be asked to complete a task that will take 5-10 minutes, followed by a set of surveys. They will also be invited to complete a second set of surveys ~7 days later.

Full description

The aim of this study is to better understand the effects of short practices on well-being. In the initial part of the study, participants will be required to complete a set of surveys assessing their health along with demographic measures. Participants will also be asked to complete a brief task. They will be asked sensitive questions (e.g., about your psychological state, mental health). To have their submission accepted, participants must correctly answer questions designed to check if they are paying attention. This part of the study will take approximately 24 minutes to complete. Anonymized data may be made available to other researchers. One week after completing this study, participants will be invited to complete a second set of surveys.

Enrollment: 5,049 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• United States and United Kingdom residents 18 year or older

Exclusion criteria

• Inability or unwillingness to complete the study
• Fail to pass the attention check embedded in the survey

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5,049 participants in 14 patient groups

Mindfulness, 5 minutes, male voice

Experimental group

Description:

Mindfulness meditation, 5 minutes duration, with a male speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Mindfulness, 10 minutes, male voice

Experimental group

Description:

Mindfulness meditation, 10 minutes duration, with a male speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Mindfulness, 5 minutes, female voice

Experimental group

Description:

Mindfulness meditation, 5 minutes duration, with a female speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Mindfulness, 10 minutes, female voice

Experimental group

Description:

Mindfulness meditation, 10 minutes duration, with a female speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Self-compassion, 5 minutes, male voice

Experimental group

Description:

Self-compassion meditation, 5 minutes duration, with a male speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Self-compassion, 10 minutes, male voice

Experimental group

Description:

Self-compassion meditation, 10 minutes duration, with a male speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Self-compassion, 5 minutes, female voice

Experimental group

Description:

Self-compassion meditation, 5 minutes duration, with a female speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Self-compassion, 10 minutes, female voice

Experimental group

Description:

Self-compassion meditation, 10 minutes duration, with a female speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Gratitude, 5 minutes, male voice

Experimental group

Description:

Gratitude meditation, 5 minutes duration, with a male speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Gratitude, 10 minutes, male voice

Experimental group

Description:

Gratitude meditation, 10 minutes duration, with a male speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Gratitude, 5 minutes, female voice

Experimental group

Description:

Gratitude meditation, 5 minutes duration, with a female speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Gratitude, 10 minutes, female voice

Experimental group

Description:

Gratitude meditation, 10 minutes duration, with a female speaker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation practices

Internet-as-usual, 5 minutes

Other group

Description:

Participants will be instructed to use the internet as they typical do for 5 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Internet-as-usual

Internet-as-usual, 10 minutes

Other group

Description:

Participants will be instructed to use the internet as they typical do for 10 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Internet-as-usual