NCT05949060

Effects of Self-Compassion Practice on Stress Reactivity Among Sexual Minority Women

Dating and Sexual Violence Among Sexual Minority Women Living in Central New York (Project DAWN), Study B: Pilot RCT

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Syracuse University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project will test the ability of brief self-compassion training to attenuate physiological and subjective responses to induced stress among sexual minority women, transgender people, and nonbinary people.

Conditions

• Stress Reaction
• Sexuality
• Compassion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Compassion Intervention	The compassion intervention is a single-session 40-min intervention in which the participants practiced soothing rhythm breathing (i.e., they are directed to slow their breathing using a five-count inhale and five-count exhale). They will then be provided didactic instruction on compassion, and will then be guided through an experiential compassion practice adapted that encompasses cultivating feelings of compassion for a loved one and then for oneself.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-17
• Primary completion: 2024-07-29
• Completion: 2024-09-20
• First posted: 2023-07-17
• Last updated: 2024-12-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States