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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
103
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
health education
University of California San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri, United States
cognitive functioning
neuropsychological battery examining memory, executive functioning, and attention
Time frame: approximately 2 months of study intervention
mind-wandering
computerized task(s) of mind-wandering
Time frame: 2 months of intervention
mindfulness
self-report plus ecological momentary assessment measurements of mindfulness (process variable).
Time frame: 2 months of intervention
anxiety and depressive symptoms
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.
Time frame: 2 months of intervention
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