NCT00892138

Mindfulness Training for Stress Management

Mindfulness Training for Stress Management: A Two-centre Randomised Controlled Study of Medical and Psychology Students With Long-term Follow up

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 290 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will assess the short and long term effects of a group-based mindfulness programme (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, MBSR) on first year medical and psychology students at the Universities of Oslo and Tromso. The primary outcome variables are mental distress, student stress and subsequent work stress, subjective wellbeing, empathy, mindfulness and spirituality. The investigators will also study explanatory moderator and mediator variables. The study will be a two-centre randomized controlled study involving 288 medical and psychology students from the University of Oslo and from the University of Tromso. The sample size calculation is based on a reduction in mental distress and perceived medical/psychology school stress of 20% in the intervention group. The control group will not receive an intervention. After the initial seven week course (taking place in 2009 and 2010) the intervention group will receive a follow-up session of 1.5 hours twice a year throughout their study course of 5-6 years. The follow-up period will last until 1 year after graduation in the Oslo cohort and until 3 years after graduation in the Tromso cohort.

Conditions

• Psychological Distress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness training	7 week course modeled on MBSR according to Kabat-Zinn

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-11-01
• Completion: 2018-11-01
• First posted: 2009-05-04
• Last updated: 2014-09-25

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Norway