Anxious Symptoms, Depressive Symptoms
Conditions
Keywords
Mindfulness, Well-being, Emotion Regulation, Perceived Stress, Self-Compassion
Brief summary
Emerging adults (EA; 18 to 29 years old) in Canada are among the age group with highest risk of developing mental health issues. Despite this, they experience especially long wait-times for mental health services. To date, there has been minimal research into developmentally appropriate treatment options for the EA population. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are emerging as a potential treatment to address this need. MBIs are group-based psychological treatments for coping with distress, with the goal of improving mental health. Unfortunately, these 'traditional' MBIs are very demanding in terms of time and homework and are therefore not sufficiently feasible for the demanding schedules of EA university students. Instead, recent studies suggest a role for briefer MBIs in addressing mental health symptom burden, well-being and reducing acute stress symptoms. The brevity of these interventions make them theoretically better suited for EA university populations. High quality research, including controlled clinical trials are needed to demonstrate whether MBIs can provide efficacious treatment to improve the lives of EA university students. The current study will test the efficacy of a five-week MBI baseline within-subject controlled trial.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMindfulness-based Intervention
MBI will be delivered in group format, 90 minutes per week, for 5 consecutive weeks with 6-15 participants per group.
Sponsors
York University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 29 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* consenting Emerging Adults * Ability to communicate, in written and spoken English
Exclusion criteria
* Minimal depressive and anxious symptoms (score below 10 and 8 on the PHQ-9/GAD-7 * Current substance abuse or dependence, psychosis or mania * Current self-injurious behavior of past suicide attempt * Previously completed \>4 weeks of an MBI, or general Cognitive behavioral Therapy, in the past 3 years
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change from Baseline Mental Wellbeing at 2.5 Weeks, 5 Weeks, 7.5 Weeks and 11.5 Weeks | Baseline (Week 0), Pre- (Week 2.5), Mid- (Week 5), Post-Treatment (Week 7.5), and 1-month Follow-up (Week 11.5) | Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS): Scale used to measure Mental Wellbeing, with higher scores reflecting greater levels of mental wellbeing |
| Change from Baseline Depressive Symptoms at 2.5 Weeks, 5 Weeks, 7.5 Weeks and 11.5 Weeks | Baseline (Week 0), Pre- (Week 2.5), Mid- (Week 5), Post-Treatment (Week 7.5), and 1-month Follow-up (Week 11.5 | Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9): Scale used to measure Depressive Symptoms, with higher scores reflecting greater levels of depressive symptoms |
| Change from Baseline Anxious Symptoms at 2.5 Weeks, 5 Weeks, 7.5 Weeks and 11.5 Weeks | Baseline (Week 0), Pre- (Week 2.5), Mid- (Week 5), Post-Treatment (Week 7.5), and 1-month Follow-up (Week 11.5) | Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7): Scale used to measure Anxious Symptoms, with higher scores reflecting greater levels of anxious symptoms |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change from Baseline Perceived Stress at 2.5 Weeks, 5 Weeks, 7.5 Weeks and 11.5 | Baseline (Week 0), Pre- (Week 2.5), Mid- (Week 5), Post-Treatment (Week 7.5), and 1-month Follow-up (Week 11.5) | 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10): Scale used to measure Perceived Stress, with higher scores reflecting greater levels of perceived stress |
| Change from Baseline Mindful Awareness at 2.5 Weeks, 5 Weeks, 7.5 Weeks and 11.5 | Baseline (Week 0), Pre- (Week 2.5), Mid- (Week 5), Post-Treatment (Week 7.5), and 1-month Follow-up (Week 11.5) | Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaires (FFMQ): Scale used to measure mindful awareness, with higher scores reflecting greater levels of mindfulness facets |
| Change from Baseline Emotion Regulation Strategies at 2.5 Weeks, 5 Weeks, 7.5 Weeks and 11.5 | Baseline (Week 0), Pre- (Week 2.5), Mid- (Week 5), Post-Treatment (Week 7.5), and 1-month Follow-up (Week 11.5) | Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ): Scale used to measure Emotion Regulation, with higher scores reflecting greater levels of emotion regulation strategies |
| Change from Baseline Self-Compassion at 2.5 Weeks, 5 Weeks, 7.5 Weeks and 11.5 | Baseline (Week 0), Pre- (Week 2.5), Mid- (Week 5), Post-Treatment (Week 7.5), and 1-month Follow-up (Week 11.5) | Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF): Scale used to measure self-compassion, with higher scores reflecting greater levels of self-compassion |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed