Clinical trial NCT04656626: Brief Mindfulness Based Intervention to Improve Psychological Wellbeing
Official title: Brief Mindfulness Based Intervention for Front-Line Medical Staff in the COVID19 Pandemic to Improve Psychological Wellbeing, a Randomized Controlled Multicenter Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress, Psychological
Lead sponsor: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-12-07
Enrollment: 146
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 22
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: our aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual brief mindfulness based interventions on psychological wellbeing, resiliency, and anxiety of frontline HCP to cope for (COVID19) stressors

Detailed description: Our specific objectives are: To measure frontline HCP's level of anxiety, resilience, and how mindfulness based interventions affect anxiety and psychological resilience of HCP.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* COVID19 frontline health care providers namely, physicians, nurses and respiratory therapist at 2 main hospitals in the eastern province of KSA

Exclusion Criteria:

1. History of psychotic disorder,
2. Substance abuse or dependence within the last 6 months
3. Current severe neurotic disorder, severe depression or severe anxiety.
4. Concurrent psychotherapy.
5. Significant personality disorder

Primary outcomes:
measure: reduction of anxiety symptom severity
timeFrame: 14 days
measure: change in the level of psychological resilience
timeFrame: 14 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: mental wellbeing
timeFrame: 14days
measure: and functional status
timeFrame: 14 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dammam
country: Saudi Arabia
facility: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
Study officials:
affiliation: IMAM ABDULRHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY
name: amani al-qurni, BOARD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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