Clinical trial NCT03229577: Yale Wellness Project
Official title: Yale Wellness Project Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1
Lead sponsor: Yale University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-07-25
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: The Yale College Emotional Intelligence project aims to highlight the beneficial impact of wellness programs for Yale students. The investigators will examine the benefits of 3 empirically-validated programs (Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) \& SKY Yoga Breathing) for Yale students on measures of general well-being (e.g. perceived stress, gratitude etc). The study will also include a no-treatment control group as a comparative measure to the well-being programs. The goal of the study is to show how each program benefits student well-being over time. Pre-intervention and post-intervention data will be collected. The hypothesis is that all 3 workshops will decrease stress and improve well-being and that the manner in which each workshop will do so may be different (e.g. MBSR will benefit student well-being by increasing mindfulness and self-compassion whereas Emotional Intelligence may benefit student well-being by improving cognitive emotion regulation). Given the current state of mental health challenges and stress on college campuses, the goal of this randomized-controlled trial is to strengthen the literature on wellness programs for students and to show that student well-being can significantly increase through effective interventions.


Eligibility criteria: Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Yale student.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under 18 years old.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire Short Form
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Perceived Stress Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Emotional Intelligence Perception Skill Test
timeFrame: 11 weeks
measure: Satisfaction with Life Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Ryff Scales for Psychological Wellbeing
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Burnout
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Gratitude Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Self-compassion Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Life Orientation Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Brief COPE Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Creativity Performance Questions
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Social Connectedness Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: One-item Self-esteem Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
measure: Big Five Questionnaire
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Human Wellbeing Scale
timeFrame: 11 Weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New Haven
country: United States
facility: Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
state: Connecticut
Study officials:
affiliation: Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
name: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Postgraduate Research Associate, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
name: Leilah Harouni, B.S.
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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