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Relaxation-Response-based Mental Health Promotion - Open and Calm 2013

NCT02140307 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2014-05-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to investigate health-promoting and stress-reducing psychological, physiological and hormonal effects of a 9-week meditation-based course in personal health and to examine potential baseline factors for any such effects. Thus, the investigators will investigate the course format (individual course or group-based course) as a potential factor the course outcome, and also individual background factors such as demographics and genetic variations.

Conditions

  • Stress Psychological
  • Stress Physiological
  • Quality of Life

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Relaxation Response-based Mental Health Promotion (RR-MHP)

The Open and Calm intervention is based on a standardized 9-week program. Week 1 uses a simple mantra-based meditation. Week 2 and 5 uses focus on the body. Week 3 and 6 uses focus on thoughts and emotions. Week 4 and 7 uses focus on social relationships. Weeks 8 and 9 were entitled "The focus you feel like", where participants chose their own focus (e.g. two weeks of bodily focus if that was most relevant for a person, while another might chose 1 week focusing on emotions and another focusing on a social relationship).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nordea-Fonden, Denmark

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Steen G Hasselbalch

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christian G Jensen, MSc. · Neurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet)

  • Steen G Hasselbalch, Professor · Memory Clinic, Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet)

  • Gitte M Knudsen, Professor · Neurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-10-31
Completion
2014-09-30

Countries

  • Denmark

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