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Mindful Prevention of Psychopathology in Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis (COVID-19 MindPreP)
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Self-help mindfulness/compassion exercises, and 1 other intervention for Mindfulness and 3 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 201 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The current study will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigating an adapted online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program versus daily online self-help mindfulness exercises, in preventing incident/prevalent psychopathology in healthcare workers allocated to work with COVID-19 patients. Outcome measures include depression, anxiety, somatoform symptoms, post-traumatic stress, insomnia, substance abuse, post-traumatic growth and positive mental health. The study also aims to explore possible working mechanisms such as perseverative thinking, mindfulness skills and self-compassion. The study will have a follow-up duration of 7 months from baseline.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants in the intervention group will follow a 4-week adapted MBSR training. The training consists of biweekly sessions of 1,5 hours. The training is structured based on the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training as originally designed by John Kabat Zinn. The program includes both formal and informal meditation exercises.
Participants in the self-help group will receive a 4-week program with daily suggestions for mindfulness/compassion exercises of 30 minutes on a YouTube-channel. Participants can schedule the exercises themselves.
Support as usual (SAU) consists of facilities or interventions already available healthcare organisations provided to their healthcare workers (e.g. buddy-, team- and peer support system, shopping/dinner service etc.).