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Effects of a Application (Flourish App) in Medical Students

NCT03895190 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2020-04-24

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Summary

This protocol proposes a well-being program, delivered through an application for mobile devices, based on meditation and positive psychology principles such as human development, the improvement of virtues, quality of life and well-being. The investigators hypothesize that this program offered in mobile application may promote well-being, reduce stress related problems and improving emotional regulation in the participants. Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a well-being program delivered through an application for mobile devices in a sample of medical students. Methods: Three hundred students of the undergraduate medical course of Albert Einstein Israelite Faculty will be recruited. The participants will be randomized in two groups of 150 participants each one, half of them in the control group (GC) and the other half to the intervention group (GI).

Conditions

  • Emotional Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Flourishing App Program

This intervention is based on relaxation, well-being promotion, meditation practices and positive psychology principles. The program is being evaluated in a classroom format into another project and was adapted for this project in the application format for mobile devices. It will last for 8 weeks, with trainings of 15 to 25 minutes, four times a week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elisa H Kozasa, PhD · Instituto do Cérebro- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-06
Primary Completion
2019-09-01
Completion
2020-04-21

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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