Anxiety Clinical Trial
— CRAFTftiugrOfficial title:
Testing the Effects of Two Mindfulness-based Programs on Well Being and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students of Translation and Interpreting: An Interventional Study
Verified date | November 2022 |
Source | Universidad de Granada |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
The Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada (UGR) has been leading the lists of the best faculties in this area in Spain and abroad for years. This has largely defined the profile of its students as high performing and, therefore, more prone to display maladaptive perfectionism which can lead to psychological distress (Rice et al 2006). However psychological distress is not something that only affects high profile students. Several studies report overall greater stress levels among undergraduate students when compared to general population levels (Ramasubramanian 2017). In fact, it is estimated that nearly 40 percent of university students experience mild to severe depressive symptoms with over 50 percent of students predicted to experience some level of depressive symptomatology during their college years (Pogrebtsova et al 2018: 46). Coping with cognitive and emotional challenges is therefore a desirable aim for every student on a daily bases. It is within this framework that CRAFTftiugr was born, a teaching innovation project, which is the result of the interaction among experts in mindfulness, lecturers and researchers in Translation and Interpreting and Experimental Psychology, students, Administrative and Support Staff and social stakeholders in the context of Higher Education. The main objective of the study is to test whether participating in a course on mindfulness-based techniques can improve students' cognitive, emotional and personal traits as well as academic performance. Together with this main purpose, the present study also aims to compare the effects of two mindfulness based programs, MBSR and CRAFT, on the students' ability to improve specific aspects of cognition, emotional intelligence, creativity or academic performance among others. Both mindfulness-based programs involve training sustained attention and an accepting and open attitude though they differ in several aspects of their methods, intention and aims. Drawing conclusions from the outcomes, a curriculum applied to Translation and Interpreting Studies will be designed aimed at preventing the development of psychological stress, perfectionism and other anxiety disorders, maximizing comfort in the Higher Education context and, ultimately, improving academic achievement.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 75 |
Est. completion date | October 31, 2020 |
Est. primary completion date | July 31, 2020 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Students from 1st year of the joint Bachelor's Degree in Translation and Interpreting, and Tourism of the University of Granada. - Students from 1st year of the Bachelor's Degree in Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada. - Students from 4th year of the Bachelor's Degree in Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada. Exclusion Criteria: - Current psychotherapy or history of psychotic disorder or neurological condition. - Established formal meditation prior experience. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Spain | Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada | Granada |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Universidad de Granada | Chair in Conscience and Development (UGR), Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC) |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change on the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire | A 39-item self-report scale, translated and validated in Spanish, that measures mindfulness traits (Baer et al 2006, 2010; Cebolla et al 2012). Respondents rate a series of statements on a 5-point likert scale, with 1 being "never" and 5 being "very often". | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire | A 10-item self-report scale, translated and validated in Spanish, that measures emotion regulation (Gross and John 2003; Cabello, Salguero, Fernández-Berrocal and Gross 2013). Respondents rate a series of statements on a 7-point likert scale, with 1 being "I strongly disagree" and 7 being "I totally agree". | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale | A 21-item self-report scale, translated and validated in Spanish, that measures depression, anxiety and stress levels (Henry and Crawford 2005, Bados et al. 2005). Respondents rate a series of statements on a 4-point likert scale, with 0 being "not at all true of me" and 3 being "very true of me". | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire | A 30-item self-report scale, translated and validated in Spanish, that measures self-regulation, psychological wellbeing, sociability and emotionality (Petrides et al 2016, Pérez 2003). Respondents rate a series of statements on a 7-point likert scale, with 1 being "I strongly disagree" and 7 being "I totally agree". | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the Cultural Intelligence Scale | A 20-item self-report scale, translated and validated in Spanish, that measures cultural intelligence (Ang et al 2007; Moyano et al 2014). Respondents rate a series of statements on a 7-point likert scale, with 1 being "I strongly disagree" and 7 being "I totally agree". | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the Mind Wandering questionnaire | An 8-item self-report scale, translated and validated in Spanish, that measures the levels of the mind wandering trait (Carriere et al 2013). Respondents rate a series of statements on a 7-point likert scale, with 1 being "almost never" and 7 being "almost always". | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the ANTIVEA task | Online cognitive test, assessing several objective indices (based on participant's reaction times and accuracy) of attention and vigilance (Luna et al 2018). | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the Test on creativity | Face-to-face questionnaire, in Spanish, measuring divergent thinking (Berná and Limiñana 2010, Elisondo et al 2017). | Baseline, 4 months | |
Primary | Change on the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire | A 52-item self-report scale, translated and validated in Spanish, that measures motivation and learning strategies (Rojas-Ospina and Valencia-Serrano 2019; Muñoz and Asencio 2018; Pintrich et al 1987, Pintrich and De Groot 1990; Martínez Fernández and Galán 2000). Respondents rate a series of statements on a 5-point likert scale, with 1 being "I strongly disagree" and 5 being "I totally agree". | Baseline, 4 months | |
Secondary | Academic performance assessment | Results from primary outcome are associated with academic performance of students' core subjects. | Up to 4 years | |
Secondary | Qualitative questionnaire on students' experience | This qualitative questionnaire with open ended questions builds directly on the results from the quantitative phase. The quantitative results are interpreted in more detail through the qualitative data. | 4 months |
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