NCT04290117

Chronobiological and ACT-based Training to Handle Stress at Work

Chronobiological and Acceptance and Commitment Based Training for the Successful Handling of Stress in the Workplace. A Randomised Crossover Clinical Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the present project is to combine "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" and "sleep hygiene + light-therapy (so-called chronotherapy)" serially in a sample of employees to reduce levels of subjective exhaustion.

Conditions

• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Acceptance and Commitment Training	During the ACT-based intervention, participants will get 4 training sessions in groups, once a week for an hour. Additionally, participants will be asked to implement behavioural exercises such as mindfulness and value-based exercises into their daily schedule.
BEHAVIORAL	Sleep Hygiene and bright light in the morning	During the chronobiological intervention, participants will get 4 training sessions in groups, one hour per week. Additionally, they will use a daylight lamp at home, for 30 minutes per day after waking up.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-16
• Primary completion: 2020-03-01
• Completion: 2020-04-01
• First posted: 2020-02-28
• Last updated: 2020-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland