An interventional study of Mindful Awareness Practices- English and Mindful Awareness Practices- Spanish in Depression, sponsored by University of California, Los Angeles. Completed. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-01-15.
Sponsored by University of California, Los Angeles · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This study explores the differential efficacy of Spanish or English versions of a mindfulness intervention on Depression levels, using a pre test post test design and an active control condition (health education).
This study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with an experimental condition (MAPs Mindfulness intervention) and an active control group (Health Education), using a pretest and immediate posttest research design. Both conditions are comprised of a 6-week group intervention, which will be administered at the UCLA Westwood Medical Campus. The sample (N=80) will be drawn from a population of adults (18-65 years old), residing within a 10mile radius of the UCLA Westwood Medical Campus. To determine initial eligibility, potential participants will self-select based on perceived high levels of stress. Participants will respond self-report questionnaires to assess for psychological symptoms and will be drawn blood samples (180ml total) to assess levels of pro inflammatory cytokines before and after the interventions. Participants will attend a total of 8 visits.
8,057 studies on the registry are indexed under Depression; 1,641 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 76 is close to the median of 84 across 6,720 interventional studies indexed under Depression.
Browse Depression studies →University of California, Los Angeles is the lead sponsor of 1,142 studies on the registry; 192 are open to participants now.
Of its 91 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 66 (73%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Exclusion Criteria:
The MAPs program was developed at UCLA (Winston \& Smalley, 2010 and Lopez-Maya, 2016) and provides experiential training in mindfulness-based practices, including mindfulness meditation. UCLA-certified instructors delivered the interventions. Active program components include sitting and walking meditations, body scan and loving-kindness meditation. Participants were provided with audio CDs or digital downloads to complete their daily meditation assignments. Sessions were held once per week for 2 hours per session over a period of six consecutive weeks. Home practice assignments consist of daily mindfulness exercises starting with 5 minutes daily, progressing to 20 minutes daily by the end of the program.
Behavioral: Mindful Awareness Practices- Spanish
The MAPs program was developed at UCLA (Winston \& Smalley, 2010) and provides experiential training in mindfulness-based practices, including mindfulness meditation. UCLA-certified instructors delivered the interventions. Active program components include sitting and walking meditations, body scan and loving-kindness meditation. Participants were provided with audio CDs or digital downloads to complete their daily meditation assignments. Sessions were held once per week for 2 hours per session over a period of six consecutive weeks. Home practice assignments consist of daily mindfulness exercises starting with 5 minutes daily, progressing to 20 minutes daily by the end of the program.
Behavioral: Mindful Awareness Practices- English
The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general. Similar interventions have been described elsewhere (Black, et al., 2014; Irwin, et al., 2014). A trained health educator provided videos and didactic presentations on topics such as: stress, sleep hygiene, diet \& nutrition, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse. The health education condition resembled the MAPs intervention in terms of duration, group format and support, attention and participant expectancy regarding health benefits.
Behavioral: Health Education - Spanish
The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general. Similar interventions have been described elsewhere (Black, et al., 2014; Irwin, et al., 2014). A trained health educator provided videos and didactic presentations on topics such as: stress, sleep hygiene, diet \& nutrition, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse. The health education condition resembled the MAPs intervention in terms of duration, group format and support, attention and participant expectancy regarding health benefits.
Behavioral: Health Education - English
The 6-week intervention aimed at teaching mindfulness-based strategies to participants (in English)
The 6-week intervention aimed at teaching mindfulness-based strategies to participants (in Spanish)
The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general (in English)
The health education condition is a weekly 2-hour, 6 session course aimed at knowledge acquisition in subjects related to health care in general (in Spanish)
Beck Depression Inventory
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a 21-item self-reporting questionnaire for evaluating the severity of depression in normal and psychiatric populations
Time frame: 6 weeks
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
This instrument is based on a factor analytic study of five independently developed mindfulness questionnaires. The analysis yielded five factors that appear to represent elements of mindfulness as it is currently conceptualized. The five facets are observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, and non-reactivity to inner experience.
Time frame: 6 weeks
Perceived Stress Scale
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is the most widely used psychological instrument for measuring the perception of stress. It is a measure of the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful. Higher scores represent overall higher levels of perceived stress. Scores range from 0 to 40 points.
Time frame: 6 weeks
Self Compassion Scale
The Self-Compassion Scale is a psychometrically sound and theoretically valid measure of self-compassion. Scores range from 26 to 130, with higher scores representing higher levels of self-compassion. All subscales (Self-Kindness, Self-Judgment, Common Humanity, Isolation, Mindfulness and Over-identified) are combined to compute a total score.
Time frame: 6 weeks
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
he Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) is a self-report questionnaire that consists of two 10-item scales to measure both positive and negative affect. Scores range from 10 to 50 points, with higher scores representing higher levels of positive or negative affect.
Time frame: 6 weeks
IL6
Plasma concentrations of Interleukin-6
Time frame: 6 weeks
TNFa
Plasma concentrations of tumor necrosis factor alpha
Time frame: 6 weeks
No study locations are listed for this record.
This study is completed, as verified in Jan 2019. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
University of California, Los Angeles