The Effect of MIND-BE Program on Mental Health Parameters (Mindfulness Based Empowerment)

Hilal Altundal

Status: Completed

Conditions: Resilience; Mindfulness; Self-compassion; Posttraumatic Growth; Mental Health

Treatments: Other: Mindfulness

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04987905

Hilal Altundal

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be carried out in a pre-test-post-test, randomized controlled (parallel), experimental order in order to examine the effect of the MIND-BE program applied to intensive care nurses on mental health parameters. The hypothesis of this study is that MIND-BE program increases resilience, posttraumatic growth, mindfulness, self-compassion levels, and reduces mental symptoms.

Full description

In the study, the MIND-BE program will be applied to the nurses (n=49) in the intervention group. Considering the studies on mindfulness on nurses, it is planned to practice mindfulness for 60 minutes once a week for 8 weeks. Mindfulness practice will be done online using appropriate platforms on the days and hours determined by Hilal Altundal (H.A.), who has a Mindfulness Institute-approved document. In the control group (n=49), no intervention will be made for 8 weeks. Results will be collected through data collection forms before the MIND-BE program, after the MIND-BE program is completed (8th week), and one month after the MIND-BE program is completed (12th week). The data collection forms applied to all nurses in the intervention and control groups at the beginning of the study will be applied again at the end of the 8th and 12th weeks. The primary expected outcome of the study is the effect of the MIND-BE program on nurses' resilience, posttraumatic growth, mindfulness, and self-compassion. The secondary expected result of the study is to determine the effect of the MIND-BE program on the mental health of nurses.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between the ages of 18-65
• Written consent was obtained before participating in the study.
• Working as a nurse in the relevant institution on the dates of the study
• Not receiving any other psychological therapy during their working dates
• No prior meditation experience
• No practice in daily mind-body practices
• The participants (nurses) do not have any physical/mental disability or limitation and disease that would prevent them from participating in the program (no psychiatric diagnosis, no psychiatric medication, previous ear, brain, spinal cord surgery, acute retinal hemorrhage, vertebral fracture, and diaphragm rupture, hiatus or abdominal hernia, acute myocardial infarction, stable uncontrolled angina pectoris, severe coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, severe valvular heart disease, acute myocarditis, acute and unstable musculoskeletal injuries, uncontrollable systemic hypertension, severe dementia and behavioral disorders) individuals are included in the study. will be included.

Exclusion criteria

• The participants (nurses) who could not complete eight sessions for different reasons and had to leave halfway through (illness, moving, changing service, etc.)
• The participants who participated in more than 70% of a mindfulness-based intervention prior to the study
• It is determined/specified that there are other existing health problems (physical/mental) after starting the education.
• Participating in less than 70% of the eight-week program
• Doing less than 70% of formal and informal practices
• Who left the program voluntarily

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group

Experimental group

Description:

In the study, for 60 minutes once a week for 8 weeks the MIND-BE program will be applied to nurses. The program includes formal and informal practices of mindfulness ("Getting started, Introduction to MIND-BE, Noticing the autopilot, Power of attention, Simple awareness, Eating awareness, Body awareness, Breath awareness, Sitting awareness, Stress and reactions, Vision awareness, Challenging emotions and situations in business life, Awareness in business life, Awareness and communication, Awareness and compassion, Developing your own practice). In addition to these, nurses will be required to keep a diary of the program. This app contains basic mindfulness exercises and does not pose any health risks to practitioners. While the MIND-BE program is carried out in the online environment, the cameras of the nurses in the experimental group will be turned on and the researcher who made the application will be able to see each nurse.

Treatment:

Other: Mindfulness

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be made to the control group, only the data will be collected at the same time as the study group. After all data are collected (after the 12th week), the training content will be explained to the nurses in the control group and the MIND-BE program will be started for them as well. In this way, both groups will benefit from this program.