NCT04589377

Mindfulness to Mitigate Psychological Threat and Improve Engagement and Learning in Introductory Physics Courses

Mobile Mindfulness Training and Physics Learning

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 149 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project involves testing a brief mindfulness training program to reduce students' psychological threat and support motivation, engagement, and learning in introductory undergraduate physics courses. The investigators predict that, compared to a control condition, mindfulness training will reduce psychological threat and increase motivation, engagement, and learning in physics.

Conditions

• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Training	Training is focused on learning the principle of RAIN (recognize, accept, investigate, non-identify) in the context of physics learning.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-26
• Primary completion: 2022-02-07
• Completion: 2022-12-31
• First posted: 2020-10-19
• Last updated: 2023-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States