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Mindfulness, Empathy and Social Integration. Its Relation With Chonic Stress

NCT04177017 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 35

Last updated 2019-11-26

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Summary

The objective of this project is to evaluate the effects of promoting the learning of empathy and pro-social behavior in health and interpersonal relationships in middle-aged children It has been shown that pro-social behavior can decrease chronic stress levels and improve the response of the immune system and the autonomic nervous system. This behavior, which includes a wide variety of actions such as helping, sharing, comforting, informing, emerges early in ontogeny and is closely related to empathic processes. Finding ways to teach how to develop empathy and perspective could contribute to favor interpersonal relationships and health in the school environment, articulating aspects of basic science and applied science. The project not only aims to deepen theoretical aspects of chornic stress, empathy and pro-sociality, but also to develop concrete tools that diminsh chronic stress and foster empathic and cooperative attitudes in the school environment, thus contributing to individual and collective well-being.

Conditions

  • Chronic Stress Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness-based intervention

The behavioral intervention was carried out once a week during 60 minutes from May to November, and included mindfulness-based practices sought to foster self-awareness, and dyadic activities sought to awakening subtle perception of the other. Group activities, which entailed more than two participants, were also conducted to foster empathic collaboration and prosocialness. Diverse collaborative games were carried out in which mutual help was needed for achieving shared goals in an amusing way . Perspective-taking was encouraged within the group, by sharing each participant's experience, which included expressing how each child had felt (i.e., if neglected, ignored or cared for) and whether they had enjoyed helping their peers or no.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina

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Principal Investigators

  • Paola D'Adamo, PhD · National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
9 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-03-20
Primary Completion
2017-11-30
Completion
2018-06-23

Countries

  • Argentina

Study Locations

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