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The Influence of Mindfulness Meditation Retreat on Attention to Internal Experience

NCT04749264 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 142

Last updated 2023-02-14

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Summary

Although attention is thought to have a definitive functional role in mindfulness meditation training and its salutary mechanisms of action, extant empirical evidence is mixed and limited. In the proposed study, we propose to test whether 6 to 7-days mindfulness meditation retreats (N=90), relative to a wait-list control condition (N=45), will impact internal attentional processes or attention to internal experience (e.g., thoughts and bodily sensations); and whether these internal attentional change processes predict salutary outcomes of mindfulness meditation retreats. Participants will complete tasks designed to measure attention to internal experience before and then immediately following the retreat, as well as self-report measures of salutary outcomes before and 2-weeks post-retreat. Matched controls will complete the tasks at parallel time-points in the lab.

Conditions

  • Attention Impaired
  • Cognitive Change
  • Mental Health Issue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness meditation retreat

6 to 7-days mindfulness retreat (Vipassana/insight meditation). The retreats are held in silence and led by senior teachers with many years of experience in teaching meditation. The focus of the retreat is the practice of mindfulness meditation while sitting and walking. Retreats include focused attention and open monitoring mindfulness meditation practices. Each retreat has a similar practice schedule thus the amount and nature of formal practice is mostly the same.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Haifa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amit Bernstein, Ph.D. · University of Haifa

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-08-01
Primary Completion
2021-12-01
Completion
2022-06-01

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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