Ultra-brief Online Mindfulness-based Intervention During COVID-19 Movement Control Order

Tunku Abdul Rahman University (UTAR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological Security; Mental Health Wellness; Psychological Distress

Treatments: Behavioral: Ultra Brief Online Mindfulness-based Intervention; Behavioral: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04536441

U/SERC/62/2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The federal government of Malaysia implemented a nationwide Movement Control Order (MCO) to control the COVID-19 outbreak. The MCO, however, has been found to have a negative impact on people's mental wellbeing. Interventions that can improve mental health under restricted movement condition is urgently. The present study investigated the impact of a brief, online mindfulness-based intervention on mental health using two-arm randomized controlled trial design. A total of 161 participants self-reported their feeling, anxiety, psychological insecurity, and well-being at baseline (T1) and post-test (T2), while 61 of them answered the same set of measures and the fear of COVID-19 scale in a follow-up study two weeks later (T3).

Enrollment: 161 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• People residing in Malaysia during the Movement Control Order.

Exclusion criteria

• People who are unable to read or write in either Malay, English or Mandarin languages.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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161 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Ultra Brief Online Mindfulness-based Intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ultra Brief Online Mindfulness-based Intervention

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This arm requires participants to answer questions about themselves.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control