NCT02140307

Relaxation-Response-based Mental Health Promotion - Open and Calm 2013

Study of Potential Health Effects of a Relaxation-response-based Mental Health Promotion Course (RR-MHP) and the Possibilities for Its Applications in the Danish Public Health Sector

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (actual)
• Sponsor: Steen G Hasselbalch · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to investigate health-promoting and stress-reducing psychological, physiological and hormonal effects of a 9-week meditation-based course in personal health and to examine potential baseline factors for any such effects. Thus, the investigators will investigate the course format (individual course or group-based course) as a potential factor the course outcome, and also individual background factors such as demographics and genetic variations.

Conditions

• Stress Psychological
• Stress Physiological
• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Relaxation Response-based Mental Health Promotion (RR-MHP)	The Open and Calm intervention is based on a standardized 9-week program. Week 1 uses a simple mantra-based meditation. Week 2 and 5 uses focus on the body. Week 3 and 6 uses focus on thoughts and emotions. Week 4 and 7 uses focus on social relationships. Weeks 8 and 9 were entitled "The focus you feel like", where participants chose their own focus (e.g. two weeks of bodily focus if that was most relevant for a person, while another might chose 1 week focusing on emotions and another focusing on a social relationship).

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2014-05-16
• Last updated: 2014-05-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark