HEART: Heartfulness Meditation to Improve Resilience Among Health Care Students: A 90 Day Program
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
This investigation will examine the feasibility of delivery and effect on resilience, depression and anxiety of a 90-day Heartfulness Practice delivered virtually for health care students. It is hypothesized that by providing this program on-line, students will be able to attend easily and complete the sessions. It is also hypothesized that those students who participate in the meditation program will increase resilience.
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Detailed Description
This investigation will examine the feasibility of delivery and effect on resilience, depression and anxiety of a 90-day Heartfulness Practice delivered virtually for health care students.
SPECIFIC AIMS (SA) SA1: Determine feasibility and acceptability of delivering the 90-day Heartfulness Meditation Program virtually. Feasibility will be assessed by participant compliance, retention, and acceptability to the participants.
Criteria: Feasibility will be achieved by Compliance with average of at least 3 trainer led meditations / week Retention of 75% of participants at the end of 45 days (intermediate point) and 90 days (primary end point).
Criterion: Acceptability will be indicated by a CSQ8 score > 17. SA2: Examine the benefits of Heartfulness meditation on improving resilience, decreasing depression, and decreasing anxiety of health care students.
H2: At the end of 90 days (primary end point), students who participate in the Heartfulness Resilience Training (HEART) will have better resilience (CD-RISC) compared with students who do not participate and will have less anxiety and depression (HADS).
SA3: Examine the association between the number of sessions completed and changes in resilience, depression, and anxiety at 45 and 90 (primary end point) days.
H3: Changes in resilience, depression, and anxiety will be significantly correlated (Pearson correlation coefficients) with total number of sessions completed (H3a) and with number of one-on-one sessions with a trainer (H3b).
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
| Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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| Active Comparator: Meditation Intervention Heartfulness meditation |
Behavioral: Heartfulness Meditation
Heartfulness meditation with a trainer provided virtually
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| No Intervention: Control Wait listed control group |
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Feasibility as measured by the Number of Meditation Sessions Completed [90 days]
Number of Meditation Sessions Completed-logged in RedCap
- Change in Resilience as measured by Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) [Baseline, 45 days, 90 days]
25 item self-report questionnaire developed to quantify resilience and the impact of psychoeducation and resilience therapy techniques. Total scores range from 0-100 with higher scores indicating greater levels of resilience. The CD-RISC has been used in a variety of populations.
- Change in Anxiety/Depression as measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [Baseline, 45 days, 90 days]
14-item screening scale developed to indicate the potential presence of anxiety and depression. HADS consists of a 7-item anxiety subscale and a 7-item depression subscale. The HADS has good validity and reliability and has been studied in a variety of populations
- Acceptability as measured by the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8) [45 days, 90 days]
8-item measure of satisfaction that is rated on a 4-point Likert scale and has a score range from 8 to 32. Higher scores indicate greater levels of satisfaction. For this study, we will assign 3 levels of satisfaction: 1) dissatisfied or least satisfied (score 8-16); 2) satisfied (score 17-30); and 3) very satisfied (score 31-32)The CSQ-8 has good test-retest reliability, internal consistency and sensitivity to treatment
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Men and women ages 20-70
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Student in one of the health care programs on the Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Students who are currently engaged in any formal meditation practice (e.g., Transcendental Meditation, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, (MBSR) more than once per week
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Unable to use the technology without special accommodations.
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | University of Colorado Anschutz | Aurora | Colorado | United States | 80045 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- University of Colorado, Denver
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Robyn Gisbert, University of Colorado, Denver
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- 20-2951