NCT04942509

Mindful Coloring to Reduce Nurses' Stress

Coloring as a Brief Mindfulness-based Intervention for Stress Reduction Among Nurses

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 79 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether nurses who did mindful coloring for at least five working days during a 10-day period experienced stress reduction afterwards.

Detailed description

Enrolled participants who met inclusion criteria (full-time clinical nurses working for at least five days during a specified 10-day period) were randomized in 1:1 ratio to the coloring or control groups. A third party did the allocation sequence and concealment. After giving informed consent, participants completed the baseline questionnaire and the coloring group watched an instructional video on mindful coloring. The coloring group were asked to color for any length of time on at least five working days during a 10-day period (period A) while the control group were asked to do it on a subsequent 10-day (period B). The post-intervention questionnaire was completed by both groups at the end of period A. The study was completed after period B.

Conditions

• Stress (Psychology)
• Burn Out (Psychology)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Coloring as a brief mindfulness-based intervention	Participants watched an instructional video on mindful coloring at the beginning of the intervention and colored mindfully for at least 5 days or 100 minutes in total during a 10-day period. The intervention included a coloring booklet that contained mandala patterns for coloring.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-07
• Primary completion: 2021-01-12
• Completion: 2021-01-12
• First posted: 2021-06-28
• Last updated: 2021-06-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong