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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Moving to Emptiness Technique in Reducing Counsellors' Compassion Fatigue

NCT07718035 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2026-07-29

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if Moving to Emptiness Technique (MET) works to treat counselors' compassion fatigue (CF). It will also learn about the effectiveness of MET on counselors' professional quality of life and counselling self-estimate. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does MET reduce counselors' compassion fatigue? Researchers will compare MET intervention to a waitlist control group to see if MET works to treat counselor burnout.

Participants will:

* Receive MET intervention for 4 sessions, once a week, 50 minutes per session.
* Fill the questionnaires tests at three timepoints: before the intervention, immediately after the intervention phase and 4 weeks after the intervention.

Conditions

  • Compassion Fatigue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Moving to Emptiness Technique (MET)

The intervention is Moving to Emptiness Technique (MET), a native Chinese psychotherapy that integrates traditional Chinese cultural beliefs which focusses on the importance of the inner (psychological) world while including somatic (bodily) relaxation and the operational process of cognitive behavioural therapy. The delivery of MET intervention would be once a week, 50 minutes per session, across 4-weeks, to ensure the participants have enough rest between each session.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Malaya

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yew Kong Lee, PhD · Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-07-27
Primary Completion
2027-06-01
Completion
2027-07-01

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