Tracking Mood and Language Change Across a Phone-based Mindfulness Intervention

Northwestern University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Depression, Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: active listening; Behavioral: mindfulness training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04861844

STU00214284

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to administer a brief, phone(voice)-based training program in mindfulness (or control task of active listening to narrated articles) to older adults who receive primary care services at NM. Older adults represent a population that is at risk for depression and anxiety, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic and the social isolation it entails. Many older adults also possess relatively low access to application-based mindfulness training opportunities. The monitoring aims are:

1. To determine whether the experimental intervention (mindfulness training) performs better than a control task (active listening) in improving mood assessed using the Profile of Mood States (POMS) and/or anxiety assessed using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).
2. To determine whether the experimental and/or control intervention is associated with quantified changes in language use (e.g., frequency of negative word use), which may or may not also be associated with changes in mood and anxiety.

Enrollment: 4 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients part of the Northwestern Medicine Geriatrics Practice, or Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine ECMH program.
2. English-speaking; and
3. Able to verbally consent

Exclusion criteria

patients with dementia or otherwise not meeting inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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4 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: mindfulness training

Active listening

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: active listening