Chronic Stress Disorder Clinical Trial
Official title:
Learning Mindfulness Based Practices, Empathy and Pro-social Behavior in the Educational Field: Its Influence on Health and Interpersonal Relationships
NCT number | NCT04177017 |
Other study ID # | CONICET |
Secondary ID | |
Status | Completed |
Phase | N/A |
First received | |
Last updated | |
Start date | March 20, 2017 |
Est. completion date | June 23, 2018 |
Verified date | November 2019 |
Source | National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
The objective of this project is to evaluate the effects of promoting the learning of empathy and pro-social behavior in health and interpersonal relationships in middle-aged children It has been shown that pro-social behavior can decrease chronic stress levels and improve the response of the immune system and the autonomic nervous system. This behavior, which includes a wide variety of actions such as helping, sharing, comforting, informing, emerges early in ontogeny and is closely related to empathic processes. Finding ways to teach how to develop empathy and perspective could contribute to favor interpersonal relationships and health in the school environment, articulating aspects of basic science and applied science. The project not only aims to deepen theoretical aspects of chornic stress, empathy and pro-sociality, but also to develop concrete tools that diminsh chronic stress and foster empathic and cooperative attitudes in the school environment, thus contributing to individual and collective well-being.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 35 |
Est. completion date | June 23, 2018 |
Est. primary completion date | November 30, 2017 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 6 Years to 9 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Participants having good general health Exclusion Criteria: - Children who were taking medication - Children that were present to less than the 80% of the intervention encounters - Children who were not present at the pre and post measurements points |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Argentina | Paola | Bariloche | Rio Negro |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina |
Argentina,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change from baseline hair cortisol levels | change form baseline hair cortisol levels at 9 months | through study completion, an average of 9 months | |
Primary | change from baseline sociogram levels | Children are asked to say which classmates they would choose as playmates and which ones they would not. The sociogram is completed previous to and after the intervention in both groups. The changes in the number of peers selected (i.e., positive elections) and rejected (i.e., negative elections) reflect changes in the pattern of social relationships of each child. Therefore, if positive elections increase and /or negative elections decrease, social integration improves | through study completion, an average of 9 months |