Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Impact of Teaching "Meditation Techniques" on the Mental Health and Quality of Life of Medical Students
Brief Summary: Studies show a high number of medical students suffering from mental health problems. Although there are several studies investigating how these problems could impact students' life and performance, few studies have investigated interventions to minimize this distress. One of these interventions is the mindfulness meditation, that has already been extensively studied in the scientific literature showing promising results. Nevertheless, there are very few studies which investigated how mindfulness could be implemented as a mandatory course. The present study aims to investigate (1) how students exposed to mindfulness differ from students not exposed to this technique concerning their mental health and quality of life in a short and long term period. This is an intervention protocol using a randomized controlled clinical trial with cross-over, in order to compare if the implementation of mindfulness for first year medical students will improve their mental health and quality of life in the short term (3 months). The intervention group (group 1) will be exposed to mindfulness in the beginning of the medical course and will be compared to a control group (group 2), not exposed to mindfulness (exposed to theoretical classes) for 3 months. After that, the intervention group (group 1) will receive theoretical classes and the control group (group 2) will be exposed to the mindfulness techniques for 3 months (cross-over). Therefore, both groups will be exposed to mindfulness in the first year of undergraduation, however in different moments of the course. Then, these first year medical students (groups 1 and 2) will be compared to another class (group 3), which didn't have this mindfulness mandatory course in their formation. They will be compared after 6 months, 12 and 24 months of intervention (long-term effect).


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A: Arm Label: Intervention group; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness training | Arm Label: Control group; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness training | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mindfulness training; Assigned to Arm(s): Control group, Intervention group
B: Arm Label: Mindful Response to Adversity; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mindful response to adversity brief training | Arm Label: Strength-based approach to adversity; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Strengths-based response to adversity brief training | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mindful response to adversity brief training; Assigned to Arm(s): Mindful Response to Adversity | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Strengths-based response to adversity brief training; Assigned to Arm(s): Strength-based approach to adversity
C: Arm Label: Mindfulness Based Therapy; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness based smoking cessation | Arm Label: Behavioral Smoking Cessation; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Behavioral Smoking Cessation intervention | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mindfulness based smoking cessation; Assigned to Arm(s): Mindfulness Based Therapy | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Behavioral Smoking Cessation intervention; Assigned to Arm(s): Behavioral Smoking Cessation
D: Arm Label: Early Mindfulness exposure; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness training | Arm Label: Late Mindfulness exposure; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness training | Arm Label: Control (not exposed); Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mindfulness training; Assigned to Arm(s): Early Mindfulness exposure, Late Mindfulness exposure

Answer: D