NCT05253092

The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Sleep Quality and Perceived Stress

The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Sleep Quality and Perceived Stress of Students in Higher Education

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Higher education students 18 years or older will participate in 8- virtual mindfulness meditation sessions over 3 to 4 weeks (minimum of 3 sessions per week). Each session will be 30 minutes long, 15 minutes for guided mindfulness meditation run by researchers, followed by a short discussion period to understand mindfulness meditation better. Before starting the mindfulness meditation session, baseline data will be collected.

Detailed description

Sleep consider a restorative occupation that affects other daily activities, such as academic performance. Mindfulness meditation may improve sleep quality and decrease perceived stress in higher education students. There is limited research on virtual mindfulness meditation involving sleep quality and perceived stress in higher education students. The researchers will measure changes in sleep quality and perceived stress after participants completed 8- virtual mindfulness meditation sessions using PSQI, PSS, and the Fitbit Inspire 2™.

Conditions

• Sleep

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual mindfulness meditation	Subjects will participate in 30 minutes of a virtual mindfulness meditation session, totaling eight sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-17
• Primary completion: 2022-07-31
• Completion: 2022-07-31
• First posted: 2022-02-23
• Last updated: 2022-08-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States