Clinical trial NCT04252976: Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification in Healthy Individuals
Official title: Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification in Healthy Individuals
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mantra Meditation
Mantra Meditation + Body-Oriented Yoga
Mantra Meditation + Ethical Living
Mantra Meditation + Body-Oriented Yoga + Ethical Living
Lead sponsor: Diakonie Kliniken Zschadraß
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Chemnitz University of Technology
First posted: 2020-02-05
Enrollment: 57
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: * 4 Treatment Conditions:
* Multiple-baseline design: 3 Baselines (7, 14, 21 days)
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: MBLM is a holistic therapy for people with mental disorders whose positive effects on patients with depression have already been demonstrated in clinical use and a pilot study. In the present study, the differential effects of MBLM domains (ethical living, healthy lifestyle, and mantra meditation) on healthy volunteers will be investigated.

Detailed description: MBLM expands existing concepts of mind-body medicine with ethical and spiritual concepts from the traditional Patanjali yoga system, which can act as a coping factor on the one hand, and higher motivation and deepening of practice (physical yoga exercises / mantra Meditation). MBLM aims to establish an exercise routine in the daily lives of the participants, which leads to salutogenesis. The promotion of mental health through meditation and yoga has been well documented (Büssing et al., 2012, Sedlmeier, Ebert, \& Schwarz, 2012), also in clinical populations (Ospina et al., 2007). The preventive potential of the MBLM program will be examined for healthy volunteers, analogous to the already well-researched and widely used Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Psychiatric disorder
2. Current participation in another meditation or yoga study
3. Regular existing meditation or yoga practice (more than once a week in the last 6 months)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of Well-Being
timeFrame: Change from baseline Well-Being at 8 Weeks
measure: Change of Mind-Wandering
timeFrame: Change from baseline Mind-Wandering at 8 Weeks
measure: Change of Emotion regulation
timeFrame: Change from baseline Emotion Regulation at 8 Weeks
measure: Change of Perceived Stress
timeFrame: Change from baseline Stress at 8 Weeks
measure: Change of Attention
timeFrame: Change from baseline Attention at 8 Weeks
measure: Change of Body Awareness
timeFrame: Change from baseline body awareness at 8 Weeks
measure: Life Satisfaction
timeFrame: Change from baseline life satisfaction at 8 Weeks
measure: Course satisfaction
timeFrame: After 8 weeks of intervention
measure: Adverse Events
timeFrame: After 8 weeks of intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Colditz
country: Germany
facility: Diakoniekliniken Zschadraß
state: Sachsen
Study officials:
References:
citation: Matko K, Sedlmeier P, Bringmann HC. Differential Effects of Ethical Education, Physical Hatha Yoga, and Mantra Meditation on Well-Being and Stress in Healthy Participants-An Experimental Single-Case Study. Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 5;12:672301. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672301. eCollection 2021.