NCT02680444

Mindful Positive Reappraisal: a Daily Diary Randomized Controlled Trial

Exploring Daily Affective Changes in University Students With a Mindful Positive Reappraisal Intervention: a Daily Diary Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 129 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ekaterina Pogrebtsova · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Brief and cost-effective interventions teaching emotion regulation techniques can be feasibly applied to promote mental health in University students. The tools of mindfulness (i.e., objective awareness and acceptance) and positive reappraisal (i.e., positive re-evaluation of negative events) can mutually benefit one another to promote well-being. The current study explored the effects of a randomly-assigned Mindful-Reappraisal intervention (n=36) compared to Reappraisal-Only (n=34) and an active control (n=36) on university students' daily affect over five days. Time by condition interactions were analyzed with planned contrasts and multilevel growth modelling.

Detailed description

The University student lifestyle can lead to heightened stress, anxiety, and burnout. To promote mental health, brief and cost-effective interventions teaching beneficial emotion regulation techniques can not only counteract the negative but also foster positive functioning. The tools of mindfulness (i.e., objective awareness and acceptance) and positive reappraisal (i.e., positive re-evaluation of negative events) can mutually benefit one another to promote well-being. However, there is currently little research testing the viability of brief, self-administered interventions combining training of mindfulness and positive reappraisal. The current study explored the effects of a randomly-assigned Mindful-Reappraisal intervention (n=36) compared to Reappraisal-Only (n=34) and an active control (n=36) on university students' daily affect over five days. Time by condition interactions were analyzed with planned contrasts and multilevel growth modelling.

Conditions

• Mental Health Wellness 1

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Administered Mindful-Reappraisal Exercise	Combining the practice of mindful acceptance of negative events combined with a reappraisal of the event by examining its positive aspects.
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Administered Reappraisal-Only Exercise	A reappraisal of daily negative events by examining the positive aspects.
BEHAVIORAL	Self-Administered Event Recall Exercise	Recall a negative event that took place that day.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2016-02-11
• Last updated: 2016-02-11