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The purpose of this study is to describe the onset, duration and dose-response of interpersonal mindful compassion on respiratory rate and heart rate variability in healthy adults in order to prepare for research evaluating the impact of this intervention in patient populations and to prepare for basic research investigating the CNS mechanisms for observed effects.
Previous research has found that mindfulness meditation, including mindful compassion, results in autonomic changes in the practitioner. Emerging neuroscience of dyadic interactions suggests that through the effects of mirror neuron isopraxis, one person's physiologic state may be mirrored by another. However, no research has directly evaluated the impact of one person's mindful compassion on another person's autonomic activity. This study paves the way for an entirely new avenue of research inquiry.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| 10 minutes reading | Experimental |
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| 20 minutes touch | Experimental |
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| 20 minutes reading | Experimental |
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| 10 minutes touch | Experimental |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Interpersonal Mindful Compassion with Touch | Other | A practitioner lightly touches the participant on the hands, arms, shoulders, lower legs and feet while extending loving kindness to the participant. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in Heart Rate Variability from pre-intervention period to intervention period | continuous monitoring for 10 min before intervention and during 10 or 20 minute intervention | |
| Change in Respiratory Rate from pre-intervention period to intervention period | continuous monitoring for 10 minutes before intervention and during 10 or 20 minute intervention |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Perceived Stress, Relaxation, Peacefulness | baseline, after a 10 minute rest period, before 10 or 20 minute intervention, immediately after intervention, 20 minutes after intervention |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Kathi J Kemper, MD | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Principal Investigator |
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| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 22185349 | Derived | Kemper KJ, Shaltout HA. Non-verbal communication of compassion: measuring psychophysiologic effects. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011 Dec 20;11:132. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-11-132. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D014110 | Touch |
| ID | Term |
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| D012677 | Sensation |
| D009424 | Nervous System Physiological Phenomena |
| D055687 | Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena |
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| Reading while extending loving kindness | Other | The practitioner sits in a room with the participant, pretending to read, while extending loving kindness to the participant. |
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