NCT04861844

Tracking Mood and Language Change Across a Phone-based Mindfulness Intervention

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to administer a brief, phone(voice)-based training program in mindfulness (or control task of active listening to narrated articles) to older adults who receive primary care services at NM. Older adults represent a population that is at risk for depression and anxiety, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic and the social isolation it entails. Many older adults also possess relatively low access to application-based mindfulness training opportunities. The monitoring aims are: 1. To determine whether the experimental intervention (mindfulness training) performs better than a control task (active listening) in improving mood assessed using the Profile of Mood States (POMS) and/or anxiety assessed using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). 2. To determine whether the experimental and/or control intervention is associated with quantified changes in language use (e.g., frequency of negative word use), which may or may not also be associated with changes in mood and anxiety.

Conditions

• Depression, Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mindfulness training	phone based mindfulness training on 4 consecutive days
BEHAVIORAL	active listening	The active listening intervention script asks the participant to attend by relaxing their body and visualizing themself in various exotic locations and narratives described in the script; it also asks the participant to rate their attention level of various points. The active listening scripts were compiled from National Geographic article excerpts (taken from the public domain)

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-01
• Primary completion: 2023-03-22
• Completion: 2023-03-22
• First posted: 2021-04-27
• Last updated: 2023-04-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States