COVID-19 and the Healthy Minds Program for Educators

  • STATUS
    Recruiting
  • participants needed
    400
  • sponsor
    University of Wisconsin, Madison
Updated on 5 August 2020
psychological stress
coronavirus
covid-19
coronavirus infection

Summary

This study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the four-week Healthy Minds Program (HMP) app Foundations training in employees of a mid-size urban school district in the United States during the summer of 2020, in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. A 3-month follow-up in the fall of 2020 will also be conducted.

Participants will be recruited via email and mailed postcards, and will first complete an online screen. Eligible participants will then enter a waiting zone for between 2-days and 2-weeks before they are sent the online pre-test. Upon completion of the pre-test, participants will be assigned to condition via a simple random number generator. If assigned to the intervention (i.e., the Healthy Minds Program App), participants will receive instructions and support in downloading and activating the app. Every 7-days over the 4-week intervention period participants in both conditions will complete the same set of measures. A full battery of measures will be administered a second time post-test, following the 4-week intervention period. Three-months after post-test, a follow-up assessment will be conducted.

The investigators predict that participants assigned to the intervention will demonstrate significantly reduced psychological distress after the intervention, and these decreases will persist at the 3-month follow-up. Further, it is hypothesized that baseline participant characteristics and early experience of the intervention will predict treatment adherence, study drop-out and outcomes, and that treatment engagement will moderate outcomes.

Details
Condition Endogenous depression, Depression, Depression, Psychological stress, Satisfaction, ANXIETY NEUROSIS, Anxiety, Psychological Distress
Age 18years - 100years
Treatment Healthy Minds Program Foundations Training
Clinical Study IdentifierNCT04426318
SponsorUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Last Modified on5 August 2020

Eligibility

Yes No Not Sure

Inclusion Criteria

Ages 18 years old and up
School district employee
Smartphone or device that can download apps from Google Play or the iTunes app store

Exclusion Criteria

Individuals under 18 years old
Significant meditation experience
Meditation retreat experience (meditation retreat or yoga/body practice retreat with significant meditation component)
Regular meditation practice weekly for over 1 year OR daily practice within the previous 6 months; or
Previous use of the HMP app
Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) depression score > 70
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