NCT05948917

Mind-Body Skills Groups for Incarcerated Men and Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Center for Mind-Body Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to learn about the effectiveness of a Mind-Body Skills Group program for incarcerated participants.The main questions is aims to answer are: 1. Do the mind-body skills groups increase resilience? 2. Do the mind-body skills groups decrease depression, anxiety and/or stress? 3. Do the mind-body skills groups increase participants' belief that they have improved coping skills? 4. Do the mind-body skills groups increase a sense of meaning in life? 5. Do the mind-body skills groups increase a sense of life purpose? 6. Do the mind-body skills groups increase self-esteem in women? 7. Do the mind-body skills groups decrease aggressive responses in men?

Conditions

• Resilience

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mind-Body Skills Groups	The mind-body skills groups consist of supportive small group sessions with about 8-10 participants per group. Participants of these groups learn and practice mind-body techniques including: meditation, self-expression through drawings, autogenics and biofeedback, guided imagery, body awareness, and genograms.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-05
• Primary completion: 2025-06-19
• Completion: 2025-06-19
• First posted: 2023-07-17
• Last updated: 2025-12-10

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States