None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This Research Project will involve a randomised control trial of an online mindfulness training program (MTP) designed specifically for medical students studying at UWA and University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the program with regards to reducing perceived stress and improving mindfulness, self-compassion and study engagement. The MTP has been developed to include brief, daily mindfulness meditation practices and brief, weekly video teachings on the applications of mindfulness meditation for medical students. The program will be delivered via an online platform. This delivery mode aims to minimise the time required by busy medical students to invest in the program while providing stress management and self-care skills that are traditionally not taught as part of medical school training. The program will be evaluated using both quantitative, including quantitative surveys before and after the program. We hypothesise that students who participate in the intervention will have improved levels of perceived stress, mindfulness, self-compassion and study engagement compared to controls who do not at the end of the 8-week program compared to baseline, with a number of intervention participants maintaining those improvements at 6-months post-intervention.
Interventions
The online mindfulness training intervention, referred to as the "Mindfulness Training Program" (MTP) was delivered over eight weeks. It included eight mini-lectures (10 minutes duration each) focusing on various applications of mindfulness relevant to medical students (including multi-tasking, stress & performance, distraction & procrastination, mindful communication, regulating your emotions, compassion, self-compassion and e-mindfulness) and eight guided mindfulness meditation sessions (5 min
The online mindfulness training intervention, referred to as the "Mindfulness Training Program" (MTP) was delivered over eight weeks. It included eight mini-lectures (10 minutes duration each) focusing on various applications of mindfulness relevant to medical students (including multi-tasking, stress & performance, distraction & procrastination, mindful communication, regulating your emotions, compassion, self-compassion and e-mindfulness) and eight guided mindfulness meditation sessions (5 minutes duration). One mini-lecture was emailed as an audiovisual recording to participants each week and one mindfulness meditation was sent via SMS as an audio recording daily from Monday to Friday. Participants had ongoing access to all the mini-lectures and mindfulness recordings on completion of the 8-week program and were encouraged to utilize these resources over the following 6-month period. Adherence was monitored by a weekly email survey requesting participants to record frequency, duration and quality of their formal and informal mindfulness practice for the duration of the 8-week program.
Sponsors
Rural Clinical School of Western Australia, University of Western Australia
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 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
All medical students attending University of Western Australia and University of Notre Dame Medicals schools in Perth, Western Australia, including students at the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia.
Exclusion criteria
None
Outcome results
None listed