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Single Session Intervention for Building Self-Compassion Habits-RCT

NCT05199779 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 135

Last updated 2022-05-17

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Summary

The study will test a single session self-compassion intervention that leverages an ultra-brief contemplative exercise. It will evaluate the effect of this intervention on psychopathology, stress, growth mindset, positive affect, self-compassion and the automaticity of self-compassion, as well as the relationships between these constructs and the automaticity of self-compassion. The participants will be undergraduate students at a large public university.

Conditions

  • Transdiagnostic Psychopathology

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Single Session Intervention Leveraging an Ultra-Brief Self-Compassion Exercise

This 20-second contemplative exercise includes draws from the science of habit formation and includes elements of self-soothing touch, somatic experiencing, and mindful self-compassion.

BEHAVIORAL

Finger-Tapping Active Control

This 20-second finger tapping exercise involves touching each finger to the thumb on one hand and repeating for twenty seconds. This intervention was designed to control for the potential effect of assessment on outcomes, the effect of having an activity to do for the duration of the intervention (4 weeks), regression to the mean, time, or other nonspecific factors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Allison Harvey, PhD · University of California, Berkeley

  • Eli S Susman, BA · University of California, Berkeley

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-13
Primary Completion
2022-04-29
Completion
2022-04-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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