NCT06360497

The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation and Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditation on Psychological Distress

The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation and Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditation on Psychological Distress: The Perspective of Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 152 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beijing Normal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 56 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of of mindfulness meditation and loving-kindness and compassion meditation on psychological distress (i.e., anxiety, depression, stress), and explore the mechanism from the perspective of reinforcement sensitivity theory.

Detailed description

Participants were randomly assigned to three groups: mindfulness meditation group (MM, n = 51), loving-kindness and compassion meditation group (LKCM, n = 51), and waitlist group (n = 50). Participants in MM group and LKCM group received four weeks intervention, and data was collected before the intervention and after the intervention.

Conditions

• MM Group
• LKCM Group
• Waitlist Group

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	mindfulness meditation intervention and loving-kindness and compassion meditation intervention	Interventions were conducted by two teachers separately. Mindfulness meditation group provided the knowledge and practice related with mindfulness, and loving-kindness and compassion meditation group provided knowledge and practice related with loving-kindness and compassion meditation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-03
• Primary completion: 2022-10-09
• Completion: 2022-10-09
• First posted: 2024-04-11
• Last updated: 2024-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China