NCT04378530

Mindfulness Takes Practice

Completed NA Last updated 19 July 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Personalized Anchoring Strategy in Stress in 174 participants. Completed in 1 June 2021.

Timeline

27 July 2020

Primary endpoint
1 June 2021

1 June 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Arizona State University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	174
Start date	27 July 2020
Primary completion	1 June 2021
Estimated completion	1 June 2021
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Personalized Anchoring Strategy
• Non-Anchoring Strategy Control
• Fixed Anchoring Strategy

Conditions studied

• Stress — all drugs for Stress →
• Habits — all drugs for Habits →

Sponsor

Arizona State University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 60, any sex, with Stress or Habits. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The purpose of the study is to optimize the delivery of mHealth tools to support the formation of persistent mindfulness meditation routines.

Aim 1: Identify the efficacy of the anchoring strategy on the persistence of daily meditation practice.

H1: Persistence (measured through repeated observations of panel regression models of the daily likelihood of mindfulness mediation over the 16-week follow-up period) will be greater among AG as compared to CG.

Aim 2: Determine participant phenotypes that are (a) associated with successfully anchoring daily meditation or (b) likely to need additional supports. Potential moderators of the anchoring strategy's success include participants' daily schedule, type of work, household composition, motivation, time and risk preferences, and prior exposure to mindfulness, which will be analyzed in the panel regression model framework above.

Aim 3: Determine the optimal type, timing, and sequence of push notifications for encouraging daily mindfulness meditation within and across study groups. The efficacy of each push notification type (tracking sessions completed, reminders, mood symptom tracking, and group-specific goal reminders), timing, and dynamics on the anchoring of daily meditation will inform a subsequent, just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI).

Impact: This study will inform an optimal JITAI R01 proposal that will personalize the type and temporal dynamics of app-based daily supports for successfully routinizing daily meditation, and determine its effects on mental health, specifically PTSD. Lifetime prevalence of PTSD is 7% in adults and meditation is known to reduce PTSD. If effective

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Using Personalized Anchors to Establish Routine Meditation Practice With a Mobile App: Randomized Controlled Trial.
   Stecher C, Sullivan M, Huberty J. · · 2021 · cited 14× · PMID 34941558 · DOI 10.2196/32794