Clinical trial NCT03789929: Emotional Competence and Compassion Online-Training
Official title: Scientific Evaluation of Online-Trainings for Emotional Competence, Compassion and Relationship Competences
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Emotional Intelligence
Keywords: Stress
Emotion
Lead sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-12-31
Enrollment: 400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 85
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: healthy adults who enrolled themselves from their own initiative into one of the included courses

Brief summary: In this study two different online-courses about emotional competence and compassion are scientifically evaluated with psychometric questionnaires and heart rate variability measuring.

Detailed description: Stress and stress related diseases are becoming a huge health burden in modern societies. Psycho-emotional stress plays a key role in stress regulation. Therefore this study aims to investigate the effects of online-courses addressing emotion regulation.

For this aim several different online-courses about emotional competence and compassion are scientifically evaluated with psychometric questionnaires and heart rate variability measuring. The courses are planned by the trainers and people register on their own initiative.

The courses have a duration of 4 weeks or three months. They consist of video lectures that explain the content as well as videos giving exercises about the character of the different feelings and about the characteristics of emotions. They teach practices on how to use feelings as an empowering force in life and how to deal with difficult emotions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18-85 years
* participation in one of the included courses
* e-mail address

Exclusion Criteria:

* participation in another study
* no verbal communication (german) possible
* dementia or another disease that limits cognitive abilities

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self-Report Measure for the Assessment of Emotion Regulation Skills (SEK-27)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Saarbrücken Personality Questionnaire (SPF) based on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
measure: The World Health Organisation- Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
measure: General Self-efficacy Short Scale (ASKU)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
measure: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
measure: Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
measure: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
measure: Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (MOS SF-36)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 months and 6 months after baseline in single workshops and baseline to 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline in the yearly program
measure: Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
timeFrame: Assessing change from baseline to 3 and 6 months after baseline in the yearly program
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Berlin-Zehlendorf
country: Germany
facility: Charité Medical University, Department of Integrative Medicine at the Immanual Hospital Berlin
state: Berlin
Study officials:
affiliation: Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
name: Andreas Michalsen, prof. Dr.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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