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Stress-physiology Coherence, Interoception, and Well-being Following Mindfulness Training or Tracking Time Spent on Mobile Device

NCT04125758 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2022-12-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Chronic stress has been shown to impact long-term emotional and physical health. When nearly three-quarters of Americans report stress at levels that exceed what they consider healthy, there is a desperate need to understand factors that contribute to effective stress regulation. This work seeks to develop a measure tied to awareness and acceptance of stress that has shown promise as a predictor of multiple markers of mental and physical well-being, understand how it relates to awareness of the body, and explore whether it can be trained to alleviate suffering and promote well-being. This study aims to 1) Conceptually replicate and extend previous findings linking greater stress-physiology coherence to higher well-being. 2) Assess whether awareness of physiology is associated with stress-physiology coherence. 3) Explore whether stress-physiology coherence can be trained through a brief mindfulness training intervention.

Conditions

  • Not Seeking to Treat Any Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness training

Brief audio recordings discussing mindfulness or guided mindfulness practices.

BEHAVIORAL

Tracking time spent on mobile device

Participants will record each day how much time they estimate they spent on their smart phone in the past 24 hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mind and Life Institute, Hadley, Massachusetts

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sasha Sommerfeldt, M.S. · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-21
Primary Completion
2022-11-30
Completion
2022-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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