NCT04984252

Testing a Brief and Low Intensity Self-compassion Intervention

Testing a Brief and Low Intensity Self-compassion Intervention for State Body Shame Among Adult Women: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 69 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sheffield · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators' recent feasibility trial of a self-compassion and active control intervention showed that the self-compassion intervention was promising in reducing state body shame during a 40-minute intervention session. There were three time points where the reduction in the body shame level was significant, indicating three active components in the intervention that led to significant reduction in state body shame. It is unclear if a shorter self-compassion intervention based on only the active components would be as effective as the longer intervention at reducing state body shame. Such a short intervention then could be used as an in-session change method (15-20 mins) as part of a larger package, or as a homework exercise.

Conditions

• Body Image Disturbance
• Body Image
• Shame

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-compassion comprising compassionate body scan-1, compassion body scan-2 and short noticing practice	This intervention includes 3 short meditations that are identified as the active component in the previous study (ID: NCT04665167)
BEHAVIORAL	Self-compassion comprising self-compassion break, loving kindness meditation, and breathing exercise.	This intervention includes 3 short meditations that are identified as the inactive component in the previous study (ID: NCT04665167)
BEHAVIORAL	Distraction group	Participants will be asked to listen recording on irrelevant topic.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-01
• Primary completion: 2021-09-16
• Completion: 2021-09-18
• First posted: 2021-07-30
• Last updated: 2021-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom