None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim of this research is to see whether a self-guided online mindfulness intervention leads to an increase in mindfulness and reductions in anxiety/depressive and stress symptoms in parents of children with DD. Based on previous research involving online mindfulness interventions with the general population, we expect that parents of children with DD will experience increases in mindfulness and reductions in anxiety, depressive and stress symptoms as a result of the intervention. If this intervention leads to increases in mindfulness and reductions in symptoms of distress, and parents rate the intervention as acceptable, then these preliminary results would suggest e-treatment as a possible alternative to current face-to-face treatments.
Interventions
This is a trial of a 14 day online mindfulness trial for parents of children with developmental disabilities to see whether this treatment is acceptable to parents and effective in increasing mindfulness and reducing psychological distress.
The treatment involves reading information about mindfulness, and listening to a ten minute meditation recording each day for 14 days. Website analytics will track frequency and duration of listening to the recording, and participants will also complete out
This is a trial of a 14 day online mindfulness trial for parents of children with developmental disabilities to see whether this treatment is acceptable to parents and effective in increasing mindfulness and reducing psychological distress. The treatment involves reading information about mindfulness, and listening to a ten minute meditation recording each day for 14 days. Website analytics will track frequency and duration of listening to the recording, and participants will also complete outcome measures.
Sponsors
Graduate School of Health University of Technology Sydney
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
• Parents of children with a developmental disability • Australian resident • Experiencing mild stress, with a score of at least 8 on the stress scale of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales - DASS-21 (Lovibond & Lovibond 1995). • Willingness to give written informed consent, and willingness to participate and comply with the study.
Exclusion criteria
• Overall score on the Patient Health Questionnaire - PHQ-9 • Score of above 2 on question 9 of the PHQ-9
Outcome results
None listed