Testing a Brief and Low Intensity Self-compassion Intervention

University of Sheffield

Status: Completed

Conditions: Body Image; Body Image Disturbance; Shame

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-compassion comprising self-compassion break, loving kindness meditation, and breathing exercise.; Behavioral: Distraction group; Behavioral: Self-compassion comprising compassionate body scan-1, compassion body scan-2 and short noticing practice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04984252

040360

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators' recent feasibility trial of a self-compassion and active control intervention showed that the self-compassion intervention was promising in reducing state body shame during a 40-minute intervention session. There were three time points where the reduction in the body shame level was significant, indicating three active components in the intervention that led to significant reduction in state body shame. It is unclear if a shorter self-compassion intervention based on only the active components would be as effective as the longer intervention at reducing state body shame. Such a short intervention then could be used as an in-session change method (15-20 mins) as part of a larger package, or as a homework exercise.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Self-identified women
• Be able to use a computer and have an Internet connection

Exclusion criteria

• Insufficient knowledge of English
• Learning disability or psychiatric illness requiring secondary care intervention
• Male
• Under 18 years old
• No access to a tablet or computer with an internet connection
• Body mass index below 18.5

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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69 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Only Active components

Active Comparator group

Description:

15 minutes, once

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-compassion comprising compassionate body scan-1, compassion body scan-2 and short noticing practice

Inactive components

Sham Comparator group

Description:

15 minutes, once

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-compassion comprising self-compassion break, loving kindness meditation, and breathing exercise.

Distraction group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

15 minutes, once

Treatment:

Behavioral: Distraction group