NCT04656626

Brief Mindfulness Based Intervention to Improve Psychological Wellbeing

Brief Mindfulness Based Intervention for Front-Line Medical Staff in the COVID19 Pandemic to Improve Psychological Wellbeing, a Randomized Controlled Multicenter Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 146 (actual)
• Sponsor: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 22 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

our aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual brief mindfulness based interventions on psychological wellbeing, resiliency, and anxiety of frontline HCP to cope for (COVID19) stressors

Detailed description

Our specific objectives are: To measure frontline HCP's level of anxiety, resilience, and how mindfulness based interventions affect anxiety and psychological resilience of HCP.

Conditions

• Stress, Psychological

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	brief mindfulness based intervention	The 20 minute daily mindfulness sessions for 2 weeks consist of the following guided meditation practices: 1. Bring your attention to a primary object of focus 2. Maintain a moment-moment awareness 3. When your mind naturally drifts into thinking (mind wandering); just notice you are thinking, and then bring your attention back to your object of focus 4. When a strong sensation arises, again, notice the sensation or emotion and return to your breath. 5. As you gain confidence, you may practice maintaining this focus while observing thoughts flowing through your mind or sensations in your body while showing no concern for the content 6. You may even label your thoughts 7. Thank yourself for your efforts and for taking this time.
BEHAVIORAL	Progressive muscle relaxation	Control group: Control group will be given an mp3 audio recording of a 20-minutes of progressive muscle relaxation will be sent directly as SMS messages and emails to be heard by the participants through their personal device of their choice, such as a smart phone.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-07
• Primary completion: 2020-07-21
• Completion: 2020-09-05
• First posted: 2020-12-07
• Last updated: 2020-12-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Saudi Arabia