NCT04177836

Mindfulness and Romantic Relationship Quality

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 274 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Delaware · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overarching aim of this proposal is to experimentally test whether a mindfulness intervention improves relationship quality. Romantic couples from the community will be randomly assigned to one of two arms: mindfulness vs. active control. Both interventions will be completed on a smart-phone for 14 days using identical intervention activities as our existing published research. After the 14-day period, couples will attend a lab visit and provide relationship quality data.

Detailed description

Romantic couples from the community will be randomly assigned to one of two arms: mindfulness vs. active control. Thus, both partners will either complete the mindfulness intervention (developed to increase attention towards and acceptance of current experiences) or a relaxation-based active treatment comparison intervention (developed to parallel the structure of the mindfulness intervention without the attention towards or acceptance of present experiences). Both interventions will be completed on a smart-phone for 14 days using identical intervention activities as our existing published research, which demonstrated that the mindfulness intervention reduced stress reactivity and improved daily well-being. After the 14-day period, couples will attend a lab visit and provide multi-method relationship quality data.

Conditions

• The Focus of the Study is Romantic Relationship Quality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness intervention	Participants will either complete a mindfulness intervention or active control for 2 weeks on their smartphone

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-04
• Primary completion: 2024-06-30
• Completion: 2024-06-30
• First posted: 2019-11-26
• Last updated: 2024-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States