The Dynamic Mechanism of Mindfulness Intervention for Emotional Distress (MIED) Based on Ecological Moment Measurement

The Dynamic Mechanism of Mindfulness Intervention for Emotional Distress (MIED) Based on Ecological Moment Measurement

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine how a mindfulness-based intervention (MIED) affects the moment-to-moment, lagged relationships between mechanism variables at the levels of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors and outcomes (anxiety and depression) in individuals experiencing anxiety and depressive distress, using high-frequency ecological momentary assessment. The main questions it aims to answer are:

At the within-person level, do these mechanism variables significantly predict next-moment anxiety and depressive symptoms at the within-day micro-scale?

How does the temporal dynamic between mechanism and outcomes over the course of MIED?

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with scores greater than 21 on the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects who could not access the Internet.
• Subjects with insufficient Chinese ability.
• Subjects who have participated in mindfulness-based projects for more than 6 weeks before, and / or the current frequency of meditation practice is more than once a week.
• Patients with schizophrenia or psychotic affective disorder, current organic mental disorder, substance abuse disorder and generalized developmental disorder.
• Subjects at risk of suicide.