NCT03857308

Eudaimonia and Sleep: Effects of a Mindfulness Intervention in Caregivers of People With Dementia

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research study seeks to understand how stress reduction training influences caregiver well-being, sleep, and physiological responses to stress. All participants are caregivers of persons with dementia. Participants will complete a 14-day, online stress-reduction intervention which involves approximately 25-30 minutes of daily practice.

Detailed description

The research project will be conducted over approximately 9 months and will consist of three data collection sessions for each participant. The three data sessions will occur before, after, and at 3-month follow-up of an 14-day, online stress-reduction training, in which participants will be asked to complete about 25 to 30 minutes of practice each day in one of two stress-reduction techniques. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a mindfulness training program or a reappraisal training program. The mindfulness training emphasizes mindfulness-based techniques to reduce stress and promote well-being, whereas the reappraisal training emphasizes cognitive strategies to change one's perception of the stressor as a way to reduce stress and promote well-being.

Conditions

• Caregivers
• Burnout
• Sleep

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Training	This stress reduction training will last 14 days and teach participants skills in concentration, monitoring of present-moment bodily experience, and acceptance of experience. Participants are encouraged to "mentally welcome" all physical and emotional experience. Each day will consist of approximately 25 to 30 minutes of training. A full explanation of the mindfulness training compared to the reappraisal training could interfere with study blinding procedures. A complete description can be provided after data collection is complete.
BEHAVIORAL	Reappraisal Training	This stress reduction training will last 14-days. Each day consists of 25 to 30 minutes of daily practice in "Coping control." Participants are encouraged to reframe and reappraise life events, both past and present, and encouraged to solve personal problems through active change. A full explanation of the reappraisal stress reduction program compared to the mindfulness program could interfere with study blinding procedures. A complete description can be provided after data collection is complete.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-13
• Primary completion: 2020-03-25
• Completion: 2020-03-25
• First posted: 2019-02-27
• Last updated: 2020-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States