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Filter by:Phase 1 will follow 40 subjects and hopes to address whether or not IMMI can increase meditation practice as compared to another meditation program. The study will last six weeks for both the IMMI group (20 subjects) and the Access group (20 subjects). Access groups will receive learning materials and guided meditations, but the implementation will be self-paced. Participants in the IMMI group will receive weekly learning sessions and be required to practice meditation every day. IMMI group participants will also receive a weekly reminder call from a member of the study staff and have access to technical support in the event of trouble with the online program. All subjects will complete online self-report questionnaires that measure quality of life, self-efficacy, mood, sleep, mindfulness, and perceived stress at baseline and at the end of the six-week intervention. Subjects will also be given a questionnaire at the end of the study gauging their satisfaction with the mindfulness program they participated in. Phase 2 will follow 80 subjects and hopes to address whether or not IMMI is acceptable to participants and demographic information about IMMI users. The study will be the same as noted above, but all subjects will be entered in the IMMI program. Differences in recruitment rates, drop out, and patient satisfaction between the IMMI and Access groups will be analyzed. IMMI's ability to change meditation behavior (i.e. increasing time or frequency of meditation sessions), and improve quality of life will be examined as well.
The purpose of this study is to determine if an eight week multimodal Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (3RP) intervention can effectively improve symptom severity, frequency and quality of life (Q.O.L) in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. This will be measured by a reduction in AF symptom score, perceived stress, anxiety, hostility and depression.
This study aims to investigate patients' experience of awake surgery of the brain. Patients therefore must suffer a disease that makes the technique of awake craniotomy necessary. In more detail, the investigators are performing this study in order to investigate the influence of fear on pain perception during surgery for patients undergoing awake surgery for lesions within the brain. In the event of finding a correlation between fear of the surgery and intraoperative pain perception, the investigators aim to reduce possible fear beforehand. An additional goal of the investigators is to identify psychological consequences of awake craniotomy timely and admit patients to an adequate therapy if necessary. There will be no changes regarding the actual treatment of the disease. In case of a consent, the patient will receive questionnaires at three timepoints: 1. day before surgery. 2. third day after surgery. 3. at 3-6 months postoperatively at the outpatient clinics. The benefit of participating in this study is the possibility of detecting psychological consequences of awake craniotomy at an early stage. If required, patients will then receive treatment timely. There are no additional risks. Theoretically there is only a data risk after analysis. Patients are free to decide if they want to participate within this study. There are no changes in the actual treatment if patients deny participation. In case of participation, patients have the right to quit at any time with no reasoning at all. During the study investigators are collecting health-related data. If patients quit before the study end, data will still be used in pseudonymized form. After 10 years, data will be destroyed. In case of participation the only duty for the patient is to fill out the questionnaires at the above mentioned three time points. The investigators conduct this study based on all rules of law regarding data protection. Investigators only use the collected data in relation to this study. All investigators are under obligation to secrecy.
This prospective pilot study evaluated the benefits of a stress management and resiliency training program for residents (SMART-R). The primary objective of this study is to determine whether the SMART-R effectively reduces burnout and stress and enhances coping skills in first year residents. Objective parameters (heart rate, galvanized skin response, sleep duration and quality, exercise and actigraphy) measured with the Basis health tracking device will help correlate objective signs to subjective report of stress. The investigators' hypothesis is that the SMART-R, a curriculum designed to teach first year residents (in the department of Medicine and Psychiatry) relaxation skills, will enhance residents' emotional and physical well being, reduce reports of stress, anxiety, depression, and physical complaints, as well as increase overall resiliency.
This research is being done is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a novel weight loss mobile app that was designed to be less burdensome than traditional weight loss apps.
The aims of this study are to test the effectiveness and acceptability of internet-delivered treatment for depression, anxiety and stress in university students. These data will inform the methods for a future randomized controlled trial. The trial will establish an initial estimate of the effectiveness of these online interventions for students in terms of within-group effect sizes associated with changes in depression, anxiety and stress from pre to post-intervention and follow-up. These data will be used to estimate the sample size for a future trial to ensure that the study is sufficiently powered. A conservative estimate using the 90% upper confidence limit will be used to inform the sample size calculation of the definitive RCT. Acceptability of the intervention to participants will be assessed using data on usage and engagement with the intervention (e.g. percentage of participants completing each module, average number of log ins, average time spent per session and total time spent on the program). These data are acquired through the online SilverCloud system. Satisfaction with will be assessed through the use of a post-intervention questionnaire on satisfaction with accessing and using an online delivery format for treatment.
Insomnia is characterized by rumination and worry over stressful events affecting nighttime sleep. Emotional reactions while stressful events are ongoing have not often been investigated in insomnia. In the current study stress reactions will be measured during a real-life simulation experiment with stressful events and investigate not only how previous sleep patterns affect emotional reactivity to the event but also how the emotional events affect sleep patterns the following night. Thirty-six female subjects (age 25-45 years) without sleep complaints (n=18) or with insomnia (n=18) will enroll in a interventional study measuring the reaction to and effects of either neutral or stressful events during driving. Through questionaires and intake polysomnography, clinical levels of depression and anxiety will be excluded as well as sleep medication use and alternative sleep disorders than insomnia. Stress levels will be measured through skin conductance and heart rate variability during events and through nighttime polysomnography (PSG). Effects on sleep architecture and arousal levels will be measured through nighttime PSG. Investigators hypothesize that subjects with insomnia, compared to subjects without sleep complaints, show stronger emotional reactions to stressful events and stronger effects of stress on sleep quality the following night. Results will facilitate a model for emotional reactivity in chronic sleep disruption which may aid to prevent short term sleep disruption converting into chronic insomnia and aid in developing customized insomnia treatment.
The aims of this study are two fold: To show whether there is an increased environmental or genetic susceptibility to stress in patients with T1D and whether it influences diabetes management. And to develop a strategy for the assessment and treatment of patients with T1D and an increased risk for development of psychopathology under stress.
This study consists of psychological and biological data collection for identification of the chronic stress presence in healthy adult subjects. The psychological data collected were the results provided by three different instruments: ISSL, PSS and SRRS. The biological data collected were the blood pressure, the skin temperature, the galvanic skin response, and the heart rate variability in time and frequency domain.
The purpose of this study is to determine if caregivers of children with a developmental delay experience a decrease in stress by participating in a meditation/cognitive training protocol.