NCT04790162

Heartfulness Meditation to Improve Resilience Among Health Care Students: A 90 Day Program

Heartfulness Meditation to Improve Resilience Among Health Care Students: A 90 Day Program (HEART)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This investigation will examine the feasibility of delivery and effect on resilience, depression and anxiety of a 90-day Heartfulness Practice delivered virtually for health care students. It is hypothesized that by providing this program on-line, students will be able to attend easily and complete the sessions. It is also hypothesized that those students who participate in the meditation program will increase resilience.

Detailed description

This investigation will examine the feasibility of delivery and effect on resilience, depression and anxiety of a 90-day Heartfulness Practice delivered virtually for health care students. SPECIFIC AIMS (SA) SA1: Determine feasibility and acceptability of delivering the 90-day Heartfulness Meditation Program virtually. Feasibility will be assessed by participant compliance, retention, and acceptability to the participants. Criteria: Feasibility will be achieved by Compliance with average of at least 3 trainer led meditations / week Retention of 75% of participants at the end of 45 days (intermediate point) and 90 days (primary end point). Criterion: Acceptability will be indicated by a CSQ8 score \> 17. SA2: Examine the benefits of Heartfulness meditation on improving resilience, decreasing depression, and decreasing anxiety of health care students. H2: At the end of 90 days (primary end point), students who participate in the Heartfulness Resilience Training (HEART) will have better resilience (CD-RISC) compared with students who do not participate and will have less anxiety and depression (HADS). SA3: Examine the association between the number of sessions completed and changes in resilience, depression, and anxiety at 45 and 90 (primary end point) days. H3: Changes in resilience, depression, and anxiety will be significantly correlated (Pearson correlation coefficients) with total number of sessions completed (H3a) and with number of one-on-one sessions with a trainer (H3b).

Conditions

• Mental Health Wellness 1
• Stress, Psychological
• Depression
• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Heartfulness Meditation	Heartfulness meditation with a trainer provided virtually

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-01
• Primary completion: 2024-04-01
• Completion: 2024-04-01
• First posted: 2021-03-10
• Last updated: 2022-08-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States