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| Name | Class |
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| University of Sydney | OTHER |
| University of California, San Diego | OTHER |
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Both mindfulness meditation and expectancy effects are known to reduce anxiety, stress and catastrophizing, but it is unknown whether and how expectancy effects contribute to the overall effect of mindfulness meditation on these outcomes, especially during significant global events such as the coronavirus pandemic. This study includes four interrelated aims that will probe these effects and interactions.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Mindfulness meditation | Experimental | "focussed attention" mindfulness meditation technique taught as means to reduce coronavirus-related catastrophizing. |
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| Specific sham mindfulness meditation | Sham Comparator | a training session designed to specifically match the real mindfulness training while lacking the proposed active elements of mindfulness training. Delivered as a means to elicit expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing. |
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| General sham mindfulness meditation | Sham Comparator | a training session designed to generally match focussed-attention mindfulness meditation while maintaining greater distance from proposed mindfulness mechanisms. Delivered as a means to elicit expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing. |
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| Book listening control | No Intervention | this group completes no meditation training. They listen to a spoken excerpt from the audiobook "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne" |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training) | Other | Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Coronavirus-related catastrophizing | assessed via a covid-19-related catastrophizing scale (CCS; 0=no catastrophizing, 52=highest catastrophizing, 30+=clinically significant catastrophizing) | 40 minutes |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Expectancy | assessed via self-report questions (0=lowest expectancy, 10=highest expectancy) | 40 minutes |
| Reappraisal | assessed via the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ-R; 4=lowest reappraisal, 20=highest reappraisal) |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Melissa Day, PhD | The University of Queensland | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Health and Behavioural Sciences | Brisbane | Queensland | 4072 | Australia |
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| Label | URL |
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| TAKE THE SURVEY NOW - LINK FOR PARTICIPANTS WISHING TO PARTICIPATE | View source |
| INFORMATION ABOUT THE STUDY | View source |
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All of the individual trial-related participant data collected during the trial, after de-identification.
Immediately following publication up and for a further 10 years .
Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee. Initial contact should be directed to the contact person for scientific enquiries (Mr Jonathan Davies, jonathan.davies@uq.edu.au).
Note: Requestors will need to sign a data access agreement.
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4 x (2) mixed design, with training (mindfulness vs specific sham mindfulness vs general sham mindfulness vs book listening control, between subjects) and time (pre-treatment vs post-treatment, within-subjects) as factors.
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| 40 minutes |
| Mindful observing | assessed via the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Observing subscale (FFMQ-O; 1=lowest observing, 5=highest observing) | 40 minutes |
| Mindful non-reactivity | assessed via the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Non-reacting subscale (FFMQ-NR; 1=lowest non-reactivity, 5=highest non-reactivity) | 40 minutes |
| State Mindfulness | assessed via the State Mindfulness Survey (SMS; 1=lowest mindfulness, 21=highest mindfulness) | 40 minutes |
| State Decentering | assessed via the Metacognitive Processes of Decentering - State (MpoD-s; 0=lowest decentering, 3=highest decentering) | 40 minutes |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D000086382 | COVID-19 |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D011024 | Pneumonia, Viral |
| D011014 | Pneumonia |
| D012141 | Respiratory Tract Infections |
| D007239 | Infections |
| D014777 | Virus Diseases |
| D018352 | Coronavirus Infections |
| D003333 | Coronaviridae Infections |
| D030341 | Nidovirales Infections |
| D012327 | RNA Virus Infections |
| D008171 | Lung Diseases |
| D012140 | Respiratory Tract Diseases |
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| ID | Term |
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| D019122 | Meditation |
| ID | Term |
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| D026441 | Mind-Body Therapies |
| D000529 | Complementary Therapies |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
| D026443 | Spiritual Therapies |
| D012064 | Relaxation Therapy |
| D001521 | Behavior Therapy |
| D011613 | Psychotherapy |
| D004191 | Behavioral Disciplines and Activities |
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