Meditation and Youth Mental Health (Med-YMH)

Effect of Meditation on the Young Mental Health - A Feasibility Pilot Quasi-experimental Study

Youth is a crucial time of life when physical and mental well-being is critical. Students are vulnerable due to academic and pandemic stresses. Meditation research has been showing effects on improved parameters of mental health (sleep quality, attention, memory, and concentration), emotional wellbeing (reduced stress and anxiety), and physiological parameters (better metabolism, circulation, immunity, etc.), which influence the life and academic performance of students. This study is designed to examine the feasibility of conducting a meditation intervention among students of a small liberal arts university in Pakistan. Future larger and longer randomized controlled clinical trials on high-risk youth may be planned at a later stage to see the impact on academic performance and career progression.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Healthy
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Meditation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 14
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Humaira Jamshed, PhD; Phone Number: +923343068708; Email: humaira.jamshed@sse.habib.edu.pk; humaira.jphd@gmail.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Jamshed Arslan, PhD; Email: jamshed.arslan@gmail.com

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 27 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy students

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students suffering from a serious illness
• Students already meditating regularly

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Meditation; Meditation for 30 min 10 days	Behavioral: Meditation; Students will meditate for 30 min every day for 10 days

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Meditation Practice	Determinants of Meditation Practice Inventory	10 days
Sleep quality (sleep duration, deep sleep, light sleep, REM)	Sleep quality as measure by the fitness watch	10 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical activity and Heart Rate	Physical activity as measure by the the fitness watch	10 days
Stress and Breathing Score	Stress levels as measure by the the fitness watch	10 days
Food intake and nutrient profile	Dietary pattern measured through an online app	10 days

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Internet Use	Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale - GPIUS	10 days
Nomophobia Questionnaire	NMPQ	10 days
Social Networking Addiction	SNAS	10 days
Emotional wellbeing	Mental Health Continuum - Short Form MHC-SF; Each of the 14 items on the MHC-SF can be scored between 0 and 5, which means that the total score on the scale can range from 0 to 70 points. Higher scores indicate a higher level of emotional wellbeing.	10 days
Depression Anxiety and Stress	Depression, Anxiety and Stress Score (DASS-21); The total score on the scale can range from 0 to 21 points. Higher scores indicate Severe depression while lower score indicates mild anxiety.	10 days
Resilience and Resilience Coping	Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and Brief Resilience Coping Scale (BRCS); The possible score range on the BRS is from 1 (low resilience) to 5 (high resilience). The possible score range on the BRCS is from 4 (low resilience) to 20 (high resilience).	10 days
Grit	Short grit scale (Grit-S). Scores can vary from 1 point (low grit) to maximally 5 points (high grit).	10 days
Loneliness	UP LAS; The score can range from 25 (low) to 100 (high).	10 days
Gratitude, Resentment and Appreciation	GRAT-Short Form; higher scores are better	10 days
Happiness	Oxford Happiness Questionnaire; higher score is more happiness.	10 days
Empathy	Empathy Quotient, This score is on a range from 0 (low level of empathy) to 80 (high level of empathy)	10 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Habib University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Humaira Jamshed, PhD, Integrated Sciences and Mathematics, Dhanani School of Science and Engineering, Habib University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): July 25, 2023
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 30, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 25, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 23, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 23, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): July 26, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): February 28, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 27, 2023
• Last Verified: February 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: HabibU

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No