The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program for Family or Caregivers of Children With Motor Disabilities

Universitat de Lleida

Status

Begins enrollment this month

Conditions

Stress, Emotional

Stress, Psychological

Stress

Treatments

Behavioral: Mindfulness-Based Stress reduction

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06557486

ULleida2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study aims to investigate the effect of a mindfulness-based program on perceived stress, severity of anxiety, parents'/caregivers' quality of life and their children, cortisol and IL-6 blood concentrations.

Enrollment

80 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Not having attended previously a mindfulness course
A score equal to or greater than 23 points at the PSS.
>18 years old
Children <18y with motor/physical disability due to a Neurological disorder.
Spanish/Catalan speaking

Exclusion criteria

Currently using drugs or any kind of medication related to stress, depression, anxiety or sleeping pills, such as steroid medicines.
Regular meditation practice (once a week in the past 12 months)
Diagnose of hypertension stage 2
Pregnancy in the case of mothers
Present hyperthyroidism
Primary adrenal insufficiency syndromes such as Cushing syndrome or Addison disease
Present any kind of infection or inflammation process, different from the interestingly to the present study that could differ the results