NCT07110792

A Mindfulness-based Intervention to Reduce Stress and Improve Prosocial Skills for Health-care Students

A Mindfulness-based Intervention to Reduce Stress and Improve Prosocial Skills for Health-care Students : a Translational RCT Integrating Clinical, Neuroimaging and Biomedical Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 161 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Geneva, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

We aim to study the clinical immediate and long-term efficacy of a web-delivered MBCT-L protocol targeting bachelor and master health-care students in Geneva, as well as to study the correlations of clinical, neuroimaging and biomedical effects of such an intervention. Primary objective: To evaluate the immediate and long-term effect of MBCT-L on reducing perceived stress and improving pro-social skills for health-care students, compared to a control group. Secondary objective: To evaluate the immediate and long-term effect of MBCT-L on trait mindfulness, compassion, global psychological well-being, sleep quality, anxiety, depression, satisfaction in studies and resilience, to broaden the clinical understanding of the impact of such an intervention.

Detailed description

This study is led jointly by Prof. C. Nemitz-Piguet, Dr F. Jermann, and Prof. S. Rudaz, who serve as co-principal investigators. This study is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant number: 32003B\_205111 / 1)

Conditions

• Mental Health Issue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L)	The MBCT-L (Bernard, Cullen \& Kuyken, 2017) intervention is an 8-week group intervention, comprising a pre-course orientation session, eight 2-hour sessions, and a half-day silent session. MBCT-L was delivered synchronously online. MBCT-L group were led by one MBCT-L instructor

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-01
• Primary completion: 2024-08-15
• Completion: 2024-08-15
• First posted: 2025-08-08
• Last updated: 2025-08-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland