Anxiety Generalized, Depressive Symptoms, Mood Change
Conditions
Keywords
Mind-Body Skills Group Intervention, Graduate student mental health, Medical student mental health
Brief summary
Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group (I-MBS-G) is an 8-week group that teaches skills to build inner resources for effective mood management. This group incorporates a holistic approach to wellness through meditation and mindfulness practices, guided imagery, breath and body awareness, and relaxation techniques. Mind-body approaches have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing stress mood symptoms and improving quality of life. The study hypothesis is that the Mind-Body Skills taught in the group will reduce mood symptoms in graduate and medical students.
Detailed description
Study Design: This study will identify medical graduate students interested in participating in an Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group (I-MBS-G) to strengthen inner resources to effectively navigate complex and stressful daily events to promote mental and physical health and well-being. This study is a pilot randomized controlled trial; participants will be randomized to the intervention or control group. The control group will receive Treatment-As-Usual (TAU) and mind-body skills reading materials. Primary Objective: Assess the feasibility and acceptability of an I-MBS-G intervention for medical graduate students using the MBSG Feedback Program Questionnaire. Secondary Objectives: Assess preliminary effectiveness of I-MBS-G on anxiety symptoms (i.e., improvements on anxiety symptoms) Exploratory Objectives: Assess preliminary effectiveness of I-MBS-G on depression symptoms (i.e., improvements on depression symptoms)
Interventions
BEHAVIORALIntegrative-Mind-Body Skills Group
Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group (I-MBS-G) is an 8-week group that teaches skills to build inner resources for effective mood management. This group incorporates a holistic approach to wellness through meditation and mindfulness practices, guided imagery, breath and body awareness, relaxation techniques, self-reflection, and mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral skills. Mind-body approaches have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing stress mood symptoms and improving quality of life.
Sponsors
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
The intervention will be delivered across eight weeks (1 session weekly).
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Students screened and admitted to the Student Mental Health Program. * Age 18 or older * A score of ≥ 4 on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) * Able to attend weekly meeting times
Exclusion criteria
* Active SI * Current mania * Active psychosis
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group program evaluation measures the acceptability of the Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group Program. | Week 9 | The Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group program evaluation is a quantitative self-report survey assessing the acceptability of the Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group measured at Week 9. The Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group evaluation uses three items measured on a 5-point Likert scale and one item measured on a 3-point Likert scale. Score range: 4- 18; acceptability = a sum score of 14 or greater; unacceptability = a sum score of 4. |
| The Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group program evaluation measures the feasibility of the Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group Program. | Week 9 | The Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group program evaluation is a quantitative self-report survey assessing the feasibility of the Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group measured at Week 9. To evaluate the feasibility of the Integrative-Mind-Body Skills Group, the number of sessions attended is measured by one item. There are eight sessions in the program. Score range: 1- 8; feasibility = score of 5 sessions or greater. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change from Baseline (week 0) in Anxiety symptoms as measured in the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) at Weeks 9 and 13. | Week 0, Week 9 and Week 13 | The Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale is a validated, self-report instrument assessing the severity of anxiety symptoms across the previous two weeks. Score range: 0-21; minimal anxiety 0-4; mild anxiety 5-9; moderate 10-14; Moderately severe depression 15-10; Severe anxiety - a score greater than 15. Change = (Week 13 score - Week 0 score). Change = (Week 9 score - Week 0 score). |
Countries
United States
Contacts
CONTACTSuza C Scalora, PhD
CONTACTPatricia Marino, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORSuza C Scalora, PhD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Outcome results
None listed