Virtual Coach for Mindfulness Meditation Training

Psychometrix Associates

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mindfulness Training

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness meditation coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01212497

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate the effectiveness of using a virtual computer coach to provide mindfulness meditation training, and the coaching support required to initiate a regular practice.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• over 18, no previous mindfulness experience, computer literacy

Exclusion criteria

• substance abuse, anxiety/depression, psychosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Mindfulness meditation coaching

Experimental group

Description:

Assess effectiveness of using a virtual computer coach to train mindfulness meditation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness meditation coaching