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A Brief Online Mindfulness Intervention: An RCT Protocol
March 19, 2024 updated by: Ka Yan
A Brief Online Mindfulness Intervention for Indonesian Undergraduate Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol
University students often experience emotional distress that originates from inside or outside academia, and for which treatment would be welcome.
Research has shown that mindfulness can help people to reduce stress, anxiety and depression.
Furthermore, a thinking style that focuses excessively on negative content (repetitive negative thinking; RNT) has consistently been found to be a mediator of the effects of mindfulness on decreasing stress, anxiety and depression.
With this study, we want to 1) investigate the effects of mindfulness on stress, anxiety, depression, and RNT in Indonesian sample of undergraduate students and 2) investigate the mediating role of RNT.
Study Overview
Status
Recruiting
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Time in university is a generally stressful period of life as a lot of students may face challenges both inside and outside academia.
In Indonesia, the majority of undergraduate students (40-80%) reports severe to extremely severe levels of stress, anxiety and depression.
Nevertheless, only few young people in Indonesia (< 5%) receive treatment due to the unavailability of mental healthcare facilities and high treatment costs.
In addition, Indonesian students tend to not seek help from others when experiencing mental health problems, as sharing personal or family experiences about mental issues is generally perceived as embarrassing.
A meta-analytic review concluded that online mindfulness has a large effect on reducing stress, and a small but significant beneficial impact on depression and anxiety.
A recent systematic review showed that a brief online mindfulness intervention can offer positive mental health outcomes (i.e., reduction of stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms) for both clinical and non-clinical samples.
Repetitive negative thinking (RNT), defined as a thinking style that focuses excessively on negative content, has consistently been found to be a mediator of the effects of mindfulness on stress reduction and the amelioration of anxiety and/or depressive symptoms.
First, this study aims to investigate the effects of a brief (14-day) online mindfulness intervention on stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms and repetitive negative thinking (RNT) in an Indonesian sample of undergraduate students.
It is hypothesized that participants in the mindfulness training and active control (psychoeducation) conditions will report less stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms and RNT after the intervention compared to the waitlist control condition.
The psychoeducation intervention has the same structure and length as the mindfulness training, but the content differs as it does not involve skills training.
Hence, psychoeducation can decrease mental health complaints, but, in line with previous studies, it is hypothesized that it will be less effective in reducing stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms than the mindfulness training.
Second, this study aims to investigate the mediating role of RNT.
That is, we study whether changes in RNT (i.e., a reduction) serve as a potential working mechanism through which mindfulness achieves its effect.
It is hypothesized that RNT mediates the effects of mindfulness on stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Estimated)
200
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Contact
- Name: Ka Yan, Master
- Phone Number: 6281802270981
- Email: tjie.kayan@ru.nl
Study Locations
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West Java
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Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, 40164
- Recruiting
- Universitas Kristen Maranatha
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Contact:
- Ka Yan, Master
- Phone Number: 6281802270981
- Email: tjie.kayan@ru.nl
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Description
Inclusion criteria:
- Being admitted to one of the universities in Indonesia
- Having good eyesight and hearing
- Access to the internet and familiarity in navigating the internet
Exclusion criteria:
- Practicing yoga/ meditation/ mindfulness regularly
- Receiving psychological treatment at the time of study enrolment
- Current alcohol or drug abuse
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Mindfuness training group
This is a group that will receive mindfulness intervention for 14 days.
Participants in this group will also be asked baseline, daily and post questions, as well as follow up questions (3 months after the intervention).
During the intervention, they can fill out an optional daily journal.
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The content of the online mindfulness intervention is based on studies by Cavanagh et al. (2013, 2018).
There is an approximately 10-minute audio tutorial that participants will listen to daily for 14 days.
In the first week, participants will be instructed to apply their learned mindfulness skills to their daily activities.
In the second week, they will continue practicing by learning to walk in a mindful manner.
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Active Comparator: Psychoeducation group
This is a group that will receive psychoeducation intervention for 14 days.
Participants in this group will also be asked baseline, daily and post questions, as well as follow up questions (3months after the intervention).
During the intervention, they can fill out an optional daily journal.
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The online psychoeducation was modified from the study by Harrer et al (2019, 2021). This intervention consists of 14 audio tutorials about stress for 14 days, each lasting approximately 10 minutes. Additionally, there is a text version of each audio tutorial, which can be accessed by participants after listening to the audio. |
No Intervention: Waitlist control group
This is a group that will not receive any training, however, this group will be asked several questions (baseline, daily and post questions, as well as follow up questions (3-months later)).
They can also fill out an optional daily journal.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995)
Time Frame: 2 weeks-3 months
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DASS-21will be administered to measure depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress.
It consists of 21 items that have to be rated on a four-point Likert scale (0 = 'did not apply to me at all' to 4 = 'applied to me very much or most of the time'.
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2 weeks-3 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ: Baer et al., 2006)
Time Frame: 2 weeks-3 months
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Change in state mindfulness will be measured using The FFMQ.
It includes 39 items, which have to be rated on five-point Likert scale (1 = 'never or very rarely true' to 5 = 'very often or always true').
It includes five components : observing, describing, nonjudging, non reactivity, and acting with awareness.
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2 weeks-3 months
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Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ)
Time Frame: 2 weeks-3 months
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Changes in RNT will be measured using The PTQ.
The questionnaire (Ehring et al., 2011) is distributed for the trait assessment of repetitive negative thinking, which includes 15-items rated on a five-point Likert scale (1 = 'never' to 5 = 'almost always').
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2 weeks-3 months
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Momentary repetitive negative thinking
Time Frame: 2 weeks (daily)
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There are five items to assess momentary repetitive negative thinking.
These items inquire about thinking patterns related to feelings, problems, worries, recurring thoughts, and being stuck on certain issues.
Each question should be answered using a seven-point Likert scale, with responses ranging from 1 = 'never' to 7 = 'every time'.
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2 weeks (daily)
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Mood questions
Time Frame: 2 weeks (daily)
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To be able to check training adherence and training performance, questions regarding context (i.e., (1) Are you in a quiet room at the moment, (2) Are you sitting in a comfortable position with your feet flat on the floor [for mindfulness training condition only] and company (i.e., (3) Are you surrounded by company?) will be asked.
These questions can be answered with a 'yes' or 'no'.
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2 weeks (daily)
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Daily Journal
Time Frame: 2 weeks (daily)
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In order to obtain additional information about participants' experiences, thoughts, feelings or difficulty regarding the intervention, we will ask them to fill out an (optional) daily journal.
Participants can write in the journal at the end of the (everyday) training.
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2 weeks (daily)
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jan Spijker, Professor, Radboud University, Propersona Institute for Integrated Mental Health Care
- Study Chair: Ka Yan, Master, Universitas Kristen Maranatha-Indonesia, Radboud University-The Netherlands
- Study Chair: Cilia Witteman, Professor, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- Study Chair: Nessa Ikani, Doctor, Radboud University, Pro Persona, Tilburg University-The Netherlands
- Study Chair: Cleoputri Yusainy, Brawijaya University-Indonesia
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
March 3, 2023
Primary Completion (Estimated)
July 31, 2024
Study Completion (Estimated)
July 31, 2024
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
May 21, 2023
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
May 21, 2023
First Posted (Actual)
May 31, 2023
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
March 20, 2024
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
March 19, 2024
Last Verified
March 1, 2024
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 7/KEP/II/2021
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
YES
IPD Sharing Time Frame
6 months after publication of the manuscript
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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