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NCT Number: NCT01693874

Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Cognitive Function in Stress and Aging

The investigators are developing and then testing whether Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a group-based instruction for increasing mindfulness, reduces anxiety and depressive symptoms and improves cognitive functioning in older adults.

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Key information

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Depression Mental Disorders

Age range

65 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Primary location

University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • aged 65+
  • current depressive and/or anxiety symptoms
  • current depressive and/or anxiety disorder
  • able to participate in behavioral study

Exclusion criteria

  • unable to participate in study

Treatment and study plan

MBSR

Behavioral

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

control (health education)

Behavioral

health education

Primary outcomes

  1. cognitive functioning

    Time frame: approximately 2 months of study intervention

    neuropsychological battery examining memory, executive functioning, and attention

Secondary outcomes

  1. mind-wandering

    Time frame: 2 months of intervention

    computerized task(s) of mind-wandering

  2. mindfulness

    Time frame: 2 months of intervention

    self-report plus ecological momentary assessment measurements of mindfulness (process variable).

  3. anxiety and depressive symptoms

    Time frame: 2 months of intervention

    scales of self-report anxiety and depressive symptoms from NIH PROMIS, and worry severity (Penn State Worry Questionnaire Abbreviated). also we will examine ecological momentary assessment measurements of anxiety and depressive symptoms.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Washington University School of Medicine

Other

Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
  • University of California, San Diego

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Sep 26, 2012
Registry last updated
Jul 23, 2014

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