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Meditation or Health & Wellness Education Via Internet for Adults 50-80 Years Old

NCT02467660 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2019-03-13

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Summary

1. Telephone Eligibility Screening
2. Baseline Visit, includes online questionnaires, physical measures, cognitive tasks, voice recordings, physical recordings of brain waves, heart rate, breathing rate, and sweat during computer tasks. Collect saliva samples, questionnaire data, and respond to handheld device that rings randomly for the seven days following the visit.
3. Randomized to receive (a) an internet-based Mindfulness Meditation program, (b) an internet-based Health \& Wellness Education program, or (c) no training. IF assigned to receive a training program, participants complete weekly one-hour online trainings and daily home practice for 6 weeks
4. Endpoint Visit (same as Baseline), scheduled 8 weeks after Baseline
5. All participants receive Meditation and Education programs after the Endpoint Visit
6. Online questionnaire follow-up 6 months after the Endpoint

Conditions

  • Stress, Physiological
  • Stress, Psychological

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness Meditation

Using study-provided iPod device to listen to guided meditations daily

BEHAVIORAL

Health & Wellness Education

Using study-provided iPod device to listen to educational podcasts daily

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oregon Health and Science University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Barry S Oken, MD, MS · Oregon Health and Science University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-30
Primary Completion
2018-08-31
Completion
2019-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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