NCT04099758

A Study of the Effects of a One-session Mindfulness of the Breath Meditation Practice on State Hope and State Gratitude in the General Population

One-session Mindfulness of the Breath Meditation Practice: A Randomized Controlled Study of the Effects on State Hope and State Gratitude

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 580 (actual)
• Sponsor: Canterbury Christ Church University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to examine whether a brief mindfulness of the breath meditation practice is more helpful than listening to an audio recording in relation to improving hope and gratitude in the general population.

Detailed description

This one-session online study will randomise members of the general public to either 1) a mindfulness of the breath meditation practice lasting 10 minutes or 2) an audio-recording control of the same length. State measures of mindfulness, hope and gratitude will be taken immediately before (baseline) and after the intervention/control. In addition, the study will also measure trait mindfulness at baseline.The primary hypothesis is that engaging in a brief mindfulness practice will result in beneficial changes in state hope compared to control. Other hypotheses are that: engaging in a brief mindfulness practice will result in beneficial changes in state gratitude compared to control; that the effect of mindfulness practice on state hope will be statistically mediated by change in state mindfulness; that the effect of mindfulness practice on state gratitude will be statistically mediated by change in state mindfulness; and that baseline trait mindfulness will statistically moderate the effect of mindfulness practice on change in state mindfulness in the above mentioned mediation models (i.e. that moderated mediation will be observed).

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness of the breath meditation	A 10-minute mindfulness of the breath meditation practice
BEHAVIORAL	Audio-recording control	10 minute non-fiction audio-recording delivered online

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-28
• Primary completion: 2020-07-16
• Completion: 2020-07-16
• First posted: 2019-09-23
• Last updated: 2020-08-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom