NCT02400593

Health Experiences & Early Life Disadvantages

An Affective Intervention to Reverse the Biological Residue of Low Childhood SES

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 113 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Growing up in a low-income household has been shown to increase risk for, and susceptibility to many illnesses.The purpose of the study is to test an affective intervention for reversing biological risk factors, as related to childhood adversity, in midlife. Participants will be asked to make two lab visits; attend six weekly, 1-hour meditation classes; as well as complete brief online daily surveys for 11 weeks, five biweekly surveys, and two 30-minute surveys prior to each lab visit. During the lab visits, participants will have their psychophysiology monitored for heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, and pulse. Participants will also have their blood drawn. All surveys and questionnaires inquire about participants' current demographics, family history, perceptions about life and well-being, physical health, and monetary choices.

Conditions

• Early Life Adversity
• Chronic Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Meditation Workshop	Six weeks of formal instruction in Lovingkindness or Mindfulness meditation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2015-03-27
• Last updated: 2016-07-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States