NCT05227794

Compassion Training and Mindfulness Training for Social Well-Being and Mental Health

Completed NA Last updated 13 February 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) in Anxiety in 290 participants. Completed in 12 December 2022.

Timeline

16 February 2022

Primary endpoint
2 May 2022

12 December 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Yale University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	290
Start date	16 February 2022
Primary completion	2 May 2022
Estimated completion	12 December 2022
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Conditions studied

• Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →
• Depression — all drugs for Depression →
• Stress — all drugs for Stress →
• Burnout — all drugs for Burnout →

Sponsor

Yale University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Anxiety or Depression. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Study Design, Aims, and Population:

The present study is a three-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT). The primary aim is to test the relative efficacy of two 8-week online interventions - Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - in promoting diverse university students' social well-being (i.e., reduced loneliness, and enhanced social connectedness and perceived social support) compared to a Waitlist (WL) control group.

The secondary aim is to examine the effects of CCT versus MBSR on the mental health of diverse university students compared to the WL group. Mental health is defined in this research as both positive mental health (i.e., happiness, positive emotions, meaning and purpose) and negative mental health (i.e., stress, anxiety, and depression).

Additionally, another aim is to enroll 75% students of color and 50% male identifying students, whose social well-being and mental health is currently understudied, to better represent the sociodemographic diversity of the university student population in the literature.

Study Rationale:

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered widespread disruptions in social connections and relational bonds that robustly support a variety of mental and physical health-protective processes. University students' social well-being may have been especially impacted as universities provide a central context for socialization. At the same time, the pandemic exacerbated a pre-existing rise in cases of mental health conditions in university students. If found effective, online-based CCT and MBSR might serve as scalable psychological interventions to foster social thriving and mental health among diverse university students.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.