NCT00214357

The Effects of Mindfulness Training on School Staff

The Effects of Mindfulness Training on School Staff Emotions, Attention, and Stress

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (planned)
• Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary research objective is to investigate psychological, behavioral, and physiological changes in school staff as a result of undergoing meditation and stress reduction training. Specifically, we hypothesize that school staff undergoing meditation and stress reduction training will show decreased emotional distress on self-report measures, increased sustained attention on a behavioral task, and decreased stress levels as indexed by salivary cortisol.

Conditions

• Teachers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-10-01
• Primary completion: 2004-12-01
• Completion: 2004-12-01
• First posted: 2005-09-21
• Last updated: 2015-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States