Guided Imagery: Reducing Stress and Imp… | Clinical Trial

Key information

Conditions

Stress, Psychological Behavior Behavioral Symptoms

Age range

13 year–21 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

Pregnant adolescents attending a local alternative education program will be subjects of this study. Students will participate in four, 15 minute guided imagery sessions over about a 4-6 week period. They will complete a pregnancy specific stress questionnaire before beginning and after completion of the guided imagery protocol. The students will also complete a short 9-question stress measure before and after each of the individual guided imagery sessions.

The specific aims are:

to evaluate whether a guided imagery intervention reduces perceived stress in pregnant adolescents; and
to evaluate whether a guided imagery intervention enhances well-being in pregnant adolescents.

The hypotheses are that the intervention will reduce perceived stress and enhance well-being in these subjects. The purpose of this study is to assess whether employing a guided imagery intervention with pregnant teens and education will reduce perceived stress levels and improve well-being.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

All pregnant students ages 13-21 enrolled in the alternative education program for parenting teens were eligible to participate

Exclusion criteria

Participants were excluded from the study if they delivered their babies prior to completing four sessions of guided imagery intervention.

Treatment and study plan

GUIDED IMAGERY

Behavioral

A fifteen minute recording of gentle music together with soft talking to guide relaxation.

Primary outcomes

Change in Psychological Stress Measure-9 (PSM-9) score

Time frame: 4 weeks

Participants will complete the PSM-9 before and after listening to guided imagery sessions for each of the 4 weekly intervention sessions. The Psychological Stress Measure-9 (PSM-9) is a 9 item questionnaire measuring stress. The original form was published in Canada by Louise Lemyre, PHD and Rejean Tessier, PHD in 1988 and the 9 item was published in 2002. Each response rests on an 8 point likert scale. For general surveys of health and well-being in the workplace, an abridged 9-item version was developed to meet a variety of research needs and applications. The PSM-9 version is used at Hydro-Quebec and Renault (France) as well as in public service, hospitals, community services, and private practice. It has the same psychometric qualities of reliability, validity, and internal consistency (.89) and maintains the same heuristic value for statistics: normality of distribution and responsiveness (Lemyre, Chair, & Lalande-Markon, 2009).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2012
Primary completion: 2018
Study completion: 2018
First posted: Dec 21, 2015
Registry last updated: Nov 6, 2018

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