NCT05058365

Effects of Mindfulness Training on the Psychological Well-being of Preschoolers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The present study is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a mindfulness course on the psychological well-being of preschoolers (i.e., attention and impulsivity, prosocial behavior, empathy, emotion regulation and conduct). Participants will be randomized to either intervention (dots Curriculum) or wait-list control condition. Participants will complete a computerized task and they will be interviewed to complete a scenario test before (baseline) and after the intervention. The parents and class teacher will also be invited to complete a survey at baseline and after the intervention.

Conditions

• Mindfulness-based Intervention for Preschoolers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	dots Curriculum	dots is a mindfulness curriculum developed by Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) for children aged 3-6 in pre-school settings. The program consists of 15-minute twice weekly lessons that span for fifteen weeks. dots has various suggestions for "Have A Go" after each session - both in the classroom and at home.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2022-06-30
• First posted: 2021-09-27
• Last updated: 2024-09-19
• Results posted: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong