60
Participants
Start Date
April 30, 2015
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2016
Study Completion Date
March 31, 2016
MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application
2 hours/week for 6 week, in classroom intervention involving mindfulness based resilience training.focused on mindfulness and self-compassion training, including body awareness, breath awareness, mindful movement, awareness of thoughts, and awareness of emotion. Core concepts included: normalizing experience of stress and changing one's relationship with an experience; learning to be a compassionate observer of self in order to appreciate the moment; recognizing undue efforts to control something that has already happened; shifting attention to felt body sense and away from the narrative; and redirecting attention to a value as a way of evoking positive states that enhance the present moment experience. Participants also use the smartphone to track their sleep and subjective well-being.
Phone application only
"Participants will track their sleep and subjective well-being and also choose one of the following weekly challenges, which is completed via smartphone interactions:~* Joys of Life~* Count your blessings~* Think differenc, feel better~* Exercising --\> Happier~ \+ Exercising --\> Sleep~* Pre-Sleep routine~* Eat that frog~* Mindful Meditation"
Questionnaires
At baseline, immediately after the last MBRT session (6 weeks) and again at 3 and 6 months, all participants will complete questionnaires, including: 1) WHO-5 Well-Being Index; 2) DASS-21; 3) VAS-Fatigue; 4) MBI-Human Services version; 5) Self-Compassion Scale; 6) Connor-Davidson 2-item resilience scale; 7) Compassion to others scale.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Scottsdale
Lead Sponsor
Arizona State University
OTHER
Mayo Clinic
OTHER