Meditation and Youth Mental Health

Healthy Clinical Trial

— Med-YMH  

Official title:

Effect of Meditation on the Young Mental Health - A Feasibility Pilot Quasi-experimental Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05474547
• Other study ID #: HabibU
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 25, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 25, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Habib University
• Contact: Humaira Jamshed, PhD
• Phone: +923343068708
• Email: humaira.jamshed[@]sse.habib.edu.pk; humaira.jphd[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Youth is a crucial time of life when physical and mental well-being is critical. Students are vulnerable due to academic and pandemic stresses. Meditation research has been showing effects on improved parameters of mental health (sleep quality, attention, memory, and concentration), emotional wellbeing (reduced stress and anxiety), and physiological parameters (better metabolism, circulation, immunity, etc.), which influence the life and academic performance of students. This study is designed to examine the feasibility of conducting a meditation intervention among students of a small liberal arts university in Pakistan. Future larger and longer randomized controlled clinical trials on high-risk youth may be planned at a later stage to see the impact on academic performance and career progression.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 14
• Est. completion date: December 25, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years to 27 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy students

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students suffering from a serious illness

• Students already meditating regularly

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Meditation
Students will meditate for 30 min every day for 10 days

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Habib University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Emotional wellbeing	Mental Health Continuum - Short Form MHC-SF; Each of the 14 items on the MHC-SF can be scored between 0 and 5, which means that the total score on the scale can range from 0 to 70 points. Higher scores indicate a higher level of emotional wellbeing.	10 days
Other	Depression Anxiety and Stress	Depression, Anxiety and Stress Score (DASS-21); The total score on the scale can range from 0 to 21 points. Higher scores indicate Severe depression while lower score indicates mild anxiety.	10 days
Other	Resilience and Resilience Coping	Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and Brief Resilience Coping Scale (BRCS); The possible score range on the BRS is from 1 (low resilience) to 5 (high resilience). The possible score range on the BRCS is from 4 (low resilience) to 20 (high resilience).	10 days
Other	Grit	Short grit scale (Grit-S). Scores can vary from 1 point (low grit) to maximally 5 points (high grit).	10 days
Other	Loneliness	UP LAS; The score can range from 25 (low) to 100 (high).	10 days
Other	Gratitude, Resentment and Appreciation	GRAT-Short Form; higher scores are better	10 days
Other	Happiness	Oxford Happiness Questionnaire; higher score is more happiness.	10 days
Other	Empathy	Empathy Quotient, This score is on a range from 0 (low level of empathy) to 80 (high level of empathy)	10 days
Other	Internet Use	Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale - GPIUS	10 days
Other	Nomophobia Questionnaire	NMPQ	10 days
Other	Social Networking Addiction	SNAS	10 days
Primary	Meditation Practice	Determinants of Meditation Practice Inventory	10 days
Primary	Sleep quality (sleep duration, deep sleep, light sleep, REM)	Sleep quality as measure by the fitness watch	10 days
Secondary	Physical activity and Heart Rate	Physical activity as measure by the the fitness watch	10 days
Secondary	Stress and Breathing Score	Stress levels as measure by the the fitness watch	10 days
Secondary	Food intake and nutrient profile	Dietary pattern measured through an online app	10 days