NCT03229577

Yale Wellness Project

Yale Wellness Project Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Yale College Emotional Intelligence project aims to highlight the beneficial impact of wellness programs for Yale students. The investigators will examine the benefits of 3 empirically-validated programs (Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) \& SKY Yoga Breathing) for Yale students on measures of general well-being (e.g. perceived stress, gratitude etc). The study will also include a no-treatment control group as a comparative measure to the well-being programs. The goal of the study is to show how each program benefits student well-being over time. Pre-intervention and post-intervention data will be collected. The hypothesis is that all 3 workshops will decrease stress and improve well-being and that the manner in which each workshop will do so may be different (e.g. MBSR will benefit student well-being by increasing mindfulness and self-compassion whereas Emotional Intelligence may benefit student well-being by improving cognitive emotion regulation). Given the current state of mental health challenges and stress on college campuses, the goal of this randomized-controlled trial is to strengthen the literature on wellness programs for students and to show that student well-being can significantly increase through effective interventions.

Conditions

• Mental Health Wellness 1

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sudarshan Kriya Yoga	Yoga-based breathing program.
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction	Mindfulness program.
BEHAVIORAL	Emotional Intelligence	Emotional Intelligence program.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-15
• Primary completion: 2019-11-30
• Completion: 2019-11-30
• First posted: 2017-07-25
• Last updated: 2020-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States