Healthy
Conditions
Keywords
Healthy, Primary Prevention, Stress, Kinesiology, cognitive behavioural therapy, Prevention
Brief summary
Stress is a common problem with significant consequences for health. It can be a trigger for somatic diseases as well as psychological disorders and leads through missed working days and healthcare cost to a high economic loss. It is for health and economic reasons essential to develop and evaluate effective interventions that can inoculate against stress and build inner strength. A cognitive-behavioural training for groups that is well evaluated and has shown to be effective is the Stress-Inoculation-Training by Meichenbaum. As the public utilization of methods of the complementary and alternative medicine is increasing a rigorous evaluation is needed. Integrative Kinesiology is a popular method that has been said to be effective against stress and its symptoms. The investigators propose a randomized controlled evaluation and comparison of the interventions to each other and to a waiting-list control group. Hypothesis: Healthy volunteers attending a two dayseminar will show significantly reduced psychobiological reactivity, decreased stress perception and less anxiety to a standardized psychosocial stress test compared to the waiting list group. A total of 64 healthy volunteers will be randomly assigned to one of the three groups. The efficacy of the interventions will be measured through the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) to measure the psychobiological stress reactivity.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCognitive Behavioural Training
Two day seminar
BEHAVIORALIntegrative Kinesiology Intervention
Two day seminar
Sponsors
University of Zurich
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 50 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Ready to participate in randomly one of the three groups * mentally and physically healthy * Sufficient German-speaking abilities to participate in the training
Exclusion criteria
* previous experience with Integrative Kinesiology or cognitive-behavioural therapy * previous experience with the Trier Social Stress Test * daily alcohol consumption: \> two alcoholic drinks * daily tobacco consumption: \> 5 cigarettes per day * any kind of drug abuse * pregnancy, after the second trimenon * intake ofe hormonal compounds (birth control pill and hormon replacement therapy)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Area under curve with respect to increase of salivary cortisol titer | 8x during TSST | TSST evaluation day will take place between 2 weeks and one month on average after the treatments are finished. Trier Social Stress Tests procedure will last close to two hours. Samples are collected at: T + 02; +25; +38; +48; +58; + 1:08; +1:23; + 1.38 |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Salivary alpha amylase reactivity to the TSST | 8x during TSST | TSST evaluation day will take place between 2 weeks and one month on average after the treatments are finished. Trier Social Stress Tests procedure will last close to two hours. Samples are collected at: T + 02; +25; +38; +48; +58; + 1:08; +1:23; + 1.38 |
| Sense of Coherence | Baseline, post intervention and follow up | Baseline: After recruitment and acceptance to the study Post: One week after the training is fulfilled Follow-up: One week after the TSST Measured by: Sense of Coherence questionnaire (SOC-L9) |
| Perceived Stress | Baseline, post intervention and follow up | Baseline: After recruitment and acceptance to the study Post: One week after the training is fulfilled Follow-up: One week after the TSST Measured by: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) |
| self efficacy expectancy | Baseline, post intervention and follow up | Baseline: After recruitment and acceptance to the study Post: One week after the training is fulfilled Follow-up: One week after the TSST Measured by: Self-efficacy-expectancy questionnaire (SWE) |
Countries
Switzerland
Outcome results
None listed