School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial
Adolescents are in a high-risk period developmentally, in terms of susceptibility to stress. A mindfulness intervention represents a potentially useful strategy for developing cognitive and emotion regulation skills associated with successful stress coping. Mindfulness strategies have been used succ...
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| author | Jeanette M. Johnstone Chelsea Roake Ifrah Sheikh Ashlie Mole Joel T. Nigg Barry Oken |
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| description | Adolescents are in a high-risk period developmentally, in terms of susceptibility to stress. A mindfulness intervention represents a potentially useful strategy for developing cognitive and emotion regulation skills associated with successful stress coping. Mindfulness strategies have been used successfully for emotional coping in adults, but are not as well studied in youth. This article details a novel proposal for the design of an 8-week randomized study to evaluate a high school-based mindfulness curriculum delivered as part of a two semester health class. A wellness education intervention is proposed as an active control, along with a waitlist control condition. All students enrolled in a sophomore (10th grade) health class at a private suburban high school will be invited to participate (n = 300). Pre-test assessments will be obtained by youth report, parent ratings, and on-site behavioral testing. The assessments will evaluate baseline stress, mood, emotional coping, controlled attention, and working memory. Participants, divided into 13 classrooms, will be randomized into one of three conditions, by classroom: A mindfulness intervention, an active control (wellness education), and a passive control (waitlist). Waitlisted participants will receive one of the interventions in the following term. Intervention groups will meet weekly for 8 weeks during regularly scheduled health classes. Immediate post-tests will be conducted, followed by a 60-day post-test. It is hypothesized that the mindfulness intervention will outperform the other conditions with regard to the adolescents' mood, attention and response to stress. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2dbd0d7e5d0b46d3af9679a7bc3404042022-12-22T02:51:07ZengElsevierContemporary Clinical Trials Communications2451-86542016-12-014C9910410.1016/j.conctc.2016.07.001School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trialJeanette M. Johnstone0Chelsea Roake1Ifrah Sheikh2Ashlie Mole3Joel T. Nigg4Barry Oken5Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USADepartment of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USADepartment of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USADepartment of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USADepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, USADepartment of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USAAdolescents are in a high-risk period developmentally, in terms of susceptibility to stress. A mindfulness intervention represents a potentially useful strategy for developing cognitive and emotion regulation skills associated with successful stress coping. Mindfulness strategies have been used successfully for emotional coping in adults, but are not as well studied in youth. This article details a novel proposal for the design of an 8-week randomized study to evaluate a high school-based mindfulness curriculum delivered as part of a two semester health class. A wellness education intervention is proposed as an active control, along with a waitlist control condition. All students enrolled in a sophomore (10th grade) health class at a private suburban high school will be invited to participate (n = 300). Pre-test assessments will be obtained by youth report, parent ratings, and on-site behavioral testing. The assessments will evaluate baseline stress, mood, emotional coping, controlled attention, and working memory. Participants, divided into 13 classrooms, will be randomized into one of three conditions, by classroom: A mindfulness intervention, an active control (wellness education), and a passive control (waitlist). Waitlisted participants will receive one of the interventions in the following term. Intervention groups will meet weekly for 8 weeks during regularly scheduled health classes. Immediate post-tests will be conducted, followed by a 60-day post-test. It is hypothesized that the mindfulness intervention will outperform the other conditions with regard to the adolescents' mood, attention and response to stress.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451865416300254 |
| spellingShingle | Jeanette M. Johnstone Chelsea Roake Ifrah Sheikh Ashlie Mole Joel T. Nigg Barry Oken School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications |
| title | School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial |
| title_full | School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial |
| title_fullStr | School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial |
| title_full_unstemmed | School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial |
| title_short | School-based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents: Design and methodology of an open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial |
| title_sort | school based mindfulness intervention for stress reduction in adolescents design and methodology of an open label parallel group randomized controlled trial |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451865416300254 |
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