NCT07108556

Brief Mindfulness Workshop With or Without Virtual Reality: A Pilot Study

Brief Mindfulness Workshop With or Without Virtual Reality: A Randomized Crossover Design

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current study uses a randomized cross-over design, in which participants are exposed to brief mindfulness-based experiential sessions with and without incorporating virtual reality (i.e., the experimental and control conditions, respectively). Order of exposure to these two conditions are counter-balanced and participants are randomized into the two arms of exposure in a different order. Furthermore, this study includes the use of both subjective self-report and objective physiological measures of mental wellbeing. It is hypothesized that VR-incorporated mindfulness-based experiential session brings a greater improvement in state mindfulness, state affect, and stress response. Results shed light on the added value of incorporating VR into brief MBIs, particularly in reference to the typical practice of promoting mindfulness in the local community.

Conditions

• Mental Wellbeing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness VR-Typical	Participants first experience mindfulness exercise with virtual reality incorporated, then another mindfulness exercise with only audio-guidance as typically delivered without the technology
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Typical-VR	Participants first experience mindfulness exercise with only audio-guidance, then another mindfulness exercise with virtual reality incorporated

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-08-02
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2025-08-07
• Last updated: 2025-08-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong