Stress Clinical Trial
Official title:
Virtual Reality-supported Mindfulness Practice in Relieving Stress in Postgraduate Students: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial
University students, especially graduate students, are constantly striving to achieve their goals, and their performance is constantly being evaluated, which creates a plethora of stressors, such as tests, a large amount of content to be learnt, lack of time, getting poor marks, and living up to their expectations. Mindfulness has been demonstrated to benefit one's emotions in a 'non-judgement' way. Evidence suggests that VR-based mindfulness practice may help individuals maintain present-moment awareness and block out distractions and may be more effective than conventional mindfulness approaches. The current pilot study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of VR-based mindfulness practices in graduate students.
Status | Not yet recruiting |
Enrollment | 45 |
Est. completion date | January 2024 |
Est. primary completion date | December 2023 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: 1. aged 18 or over; 2. enrolled in graduate programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3. experienced stress: the score of perceived stress scale more than 13; 4. able to speak and write in English Exclusion Criteria: 1. diagnosed with psychiatric disorders; 2. currently taking psychotropic medication; 3. have history of photosensitive epilepsy or previous experience of severe simulator sickness; 4. receiving or have just completed other psychological interventions (e.g. stress management, mental health support, peer support, etc) within the last six months will be excluded; or 5. history of seizures and motion sickness. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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China | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Chinese University of Hong Kong |
China,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Acceptability of the intervention | Participants in the VR mindfulness group will be asked to provide qualitative feedback via a semi-structured interview. The interview questions focused on eliciting the participants' view about the VR experience, facilitators and barriers for VR-based mindfulness practice, and the positive and negative features of VR, which may help or hinder the mindfulness practice. | Week 2 | |
Primary | Eligibility rate | The eligibility rate is defined as the percentage of participants fulfilling the inclusion criteria amongst the participants screened for the eligibility | Baseline | |
Primary | Recruitment rate | The recruitment rate is defined as the percentage of participants who consented to participate in the study amongst the participants eligible for the study | Baseline | |
Primary | Attrition rate | The attrition rate is defined as the percentage of participants who withdrew from the study before completion | Week 2 | |
Primary | Adherence rate | The adherence rate is defined as the frequency of the practice of mindfulness and session attendance | Week 2 | |
Primary | Change from baseline in the score of perceived stress assessed by The Perceived Stress Scale to immediately after the intervention | A 10-item self-report instrument that measures the degree to which events are appraised as stressful and the frequency of perceived stressful situations. Students will be instructed to report the frequency of perceived stress over the past month from 0 (Never) to 4 (Very Often). Total scores on the PSS can range from 0 to 40. Higher total scores indicate higher levels of perceived stress. | Baseline and Week 2 (post-intervention) | |
Secondary | Change from baseline in the score of mindfulness assessed by The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire to immediately after the intervention | A 39-item self-report instrument that measures levels of mindfulness, including five facets: observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience and non-reactivity to inner experience. Students will be invited to indicate on a 5-point Likert scale the degree to which each item is generally true for them, ranging from 1 to 5. Higher scores indicate higher levels of mindfulness. | Baseline and Week 2 (post-intervention) | |
Secondary | Change from baseline in the level of mood states by The abbreviated Profile of Mood States to immediately after the intervention | A 40-item self-report instrument that measures seven different subscales of transient mood states. Each question is score from 0 to 4. High scores indicate great mood disturbance. | Baseline and Week 2 (post-intervention) |
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