Brief Mindfulness-based Intervention for Indonesian Teacher in Rural Area

Investigating the Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Intervention on Teachers' Stress and Psychological Well-being in Rural Indonesia

A randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of the brief mindfulness on teachers' perceived stress and their psychological well-being.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Stress, Psychological
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: brief mindfulness

Detailed Description

Teacher in early childhood education (ECE) in Indonesia is experiencing high intense stress due to work environment, class management, child behaviour problem, and lack administrative support. Stress has also shown negatively impact their psychological well-being, quality of teaching, and to children's' executive function. Research about stress and the effects on teacher well-being is especially lacking for rural schools. They represent a forgotten minority and thus, teacher from rural area need a prompt and direct support in terms of stress management strategies.

This study employs a randomized wait-list controlled trial design (RCT) with an assessment before and after treatment. 4-weeks brief mindfulness-based protocol will be given to 40 teachers as experimental group. 40 other teachers receive wait-list treatment will assign as control group. Measurement of perceived stress level will be using Indonesian version of Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), psychological wellbeing will be measure using Indonesian Well-being Scale (IWS), and mindfulness traits will be measure using Indonesian version of Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ). Data analysis using MANOVA and ANOVA to measure the differences between groups and within groups for all tests and constructs measured.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 80
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Indonesia
  • Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 55166
    • Ahmad Dahlan University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• minimum two years of work experience as early childhood education teacher.
• minimum 25 years of age.
• scoring Moderate (total score 14-26) to High (total score 27-40) perceived stress on PSS-10

Exclusion Criteria:

• have received any formal / manualized mindfulness training prior.
• have ever been diagnosed with chronic stress or other related mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, PTSD.
• people with a history or tendency to commit suicide.
• people with addictive substance dependence who are recovering less than one year.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: MindCARE; Group A is an experimental group that will receive mindfulness intervention for 4 consecutive weeks. Group A consists of 2-3 cohorts with 10-15 subjects per cohort.	Behavioral: brief mindfulness; The mindfulness intervention protocol in this study is an adaptation of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) protocol with the cultural adaptation suits Indonesia population with addition of Islamic elements (i.e., a series of spiritual approaches) to improve emotional regulation, make sense of their life, be grateful and feel closer to God.; Other Names: MindCARE (Mindfulness for Compassion and Relieve Stress)
No Intervention: Wait-list control group; Group B is the wait-list control group which did not receive any intervention for 4 weeks.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS	The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) is a 10-item questionnaire widely used to assess stress levels in young people and adults aged 12 and above. It evaluates the degree to which an individual has perceived life as unpredictable, uncontrollable and overloading over the previous month. The PSS score is obtained by summing across all items. A total PSS-10 score from 0 to 40 is presented, with higher scores representing higher levels of stress.	4 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Indonesian Well-being Scale (IWS)	The IWS is a well-being self-report instrument developed for the Indonesian general population. The scale consisted of 20 favourable items asking the respondent's sense of well-being in five different domains; Basic Needs (BN), Social Relation (SN), Acceptance (SA), Gratitude (GR), and Spirituality (SP). Score is ranging from 20 (minimum) to 100 (maximum), with higher score indicate higer psychological well-being.	4 weeks
Five Facet Mindfulness Scale (FFMQ)	The FFMQ consists of 39 items asking the individual to rate the extent to which a statement pertaining to mindfulness is applicable, on a scale from 1(never or rarely true) to 5 (very often or always true). Obtained score ranging from 39 (minimum) to 195 (maximum). Nineteen of the 39 items are reverse scored. These 19 items were reverse-scored prior to analysis, such that higher scores indicate higher mindfulness. Seven of the items comprise the non-reactivity facet, and eight items comprise each of the observing, describing, acting with awareness, and non-judging facets. Total scores for each facet are computed by summing the items after reverse scoring.	4 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: International Islamic University Malaysia
• Collaborators: Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jamilah HA Khaiyom, Doctoral, International Islamic University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 15, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 25, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 25, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 26, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 4, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): November 9, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 22, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 18, 2025
• Last Verified: May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: mindfulness; well-being; Indonesia; perceived stress; teacher
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological
• Other Study ID Numbers: 012211183

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