Cognition - Other, Complete Psychological Check Up, Personality, Sleep, Stress
Conditions
Keywords
Mindfulness, Stress, Cognition, Psychological health, Primary prevention
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether mindfulness is useful as primary prevention for psychological health in highschool students, primarily related to stress, and whether mindfulness can improve cognitive function.
Detailed description
There is a general suspicion that stress and stress-related psychological disorders is growing in highschool students in Sweden. Mindfulness is a well researched therapeutical method for treating stress-related disorders. This study will first collect data on stress-related psychological symptoms by several well-validated surveys. The surveys will be made twice with 8 weeks in between to examine variability. After the second survey the population of highschool students will be randomly assigned to web-based mindfulness intervention, music relaxation intervention or control group. A third survey will be conducted after eight weeks of intervention and before and after an external stressor.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMindfulness intervention
Web-based guided mindfulness meditation 10 minutes daily
BEHAVIORALMusic relaxation
Music relaxation 10 minutes daily
Sponsors
Region Skane
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
FACTORIAL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
15 Years to 20 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* High school student from designated school
Exclusion criteria
* None Swedish-speaking
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Better mental health | Baseline to Eight weeks | Lower Global Severity Index (from SCL-90) intrapersonal change |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lower degree of perceived stress | Baseline to Eight weeks | Lower result on Perceived Stress Scale |
| Cognitive enhancement | Baseline to Eight weeks | Shorter time on Trailmaking A and B as well as higher result on Symbol-Digit |
| Better sleep quality | Baseline to Eight weeks | Lower result on Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index |
| Lower sick leave | Baseline to 6 months | Less days of sick leave |
| Lower Neuroticism | Baseline to Eight weeks | Lower Neuroticism result on Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire |
| Higher grades | Baseline to 6 months | Higher mean school grades |
Countries
Sweden
Outcome results
None listed