The Center for Mind -Body Medicine has developed a mind-body skills group program that incorporates meditation, guided imagery, breathing techniques, autogenic training, biofeedback, genograms, and self-expression through words, drawings, and movement. These mind-body skills are designed to increase self-awareness and self-regulation. This program has been shown to significantly improve depression symptoms in children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder in Gaza, but it has not yet been tested in a US adolescent population. The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of using mind-body skills groups to reduce depression in adolescents and to investigate the effects of the program on factors such as self-efficacy, mindfulness and rumination which are likely to mediate improvement.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
49
mind-body skills group program incorporates meditation, guided imagery, breathing techniques, autogenic training, biofeedback, genograms, and self-expression through words, drawings, and movement
Eskenazi Health Primary Care
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Change in Children's Depression Inventory-2 (CDI-2) scores
self report long version (28 items) to assess the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in children
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Children's Depression Inventory-2 (CDI-2) scores
self report long version (28 items) to assess the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in children
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Change in Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score
self report (9 questions) to screen for the presence and severity of depression
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score
self report (9 questions) to screen for the presence and severity of depression
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Change in Rumination Subscale of the Children's Response Style Questionnaire Score
self report (13 questions) of rumination symptoms
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Rumination Subscale of the Children's Response Style Questionnaire Score
self report (13 questions) of rumination symptoms
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Change in Mindful Attention Awareness Scale-Adolescent (MAAS) score
self report (14 questions) designed to assess open or receptive awareness of and attention to what is taking place in the present
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Mindful Attention Awareness Scale-Adolescent (MAAS) score
self report (14 questions) designed to assess open or receptive awareness of and attention to what is taking place in the present
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Change in Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Depression in Adolescents (SEQ-DA) score
self report (12 items) designed to measure self-perceived ability to cope with depressive symptoms
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Depression in Adolescents (SEQ-DA) score
self report (12 items) designed to measure self-perceived ability to cope with depressive symptoms
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Change in Suicide Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) score
self report (30 or 15 items depending on grade level) to assess frequency of suicidal ideation
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Suicide Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) score
self report (30 or 15 items depending on grade level) to assess frequency of suicidal ideation
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Acceptability Questionnaire
self report (15 items) intervention acceptability assessment of usefulness and helpfulness of the intervention
Time frame: within one month after end of intervention
Acceptability Questionnaire
self report (15 items) intervention acceptability assessment of usefulness and helpfulness of the intervention
Time frame: approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Acceptability Questionnaire - open-ended questions for qualitative analyses
3 open-ended questions to gather qualitative data about the usefulness and helpfulness of the intervention
Time frame: within one month after end of intervention
Acceptability Questionnaire - open-ended questions for qualitative analyses
3 open-ended questions to gather qualitative data about the usefulness and helpfulness of the intervention
Time frame: approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Change in Hope Scale Score
* self report (12 items), 4-point Likert scale(1=Definitely False to 4=Definitely True) * evaluates global hope (range 8-32); there are also 2 subscales: hope agency (range 4-16) and hope pathways (range 4-16) * includes distracter items * global hope score calculated by summing the hope agency and hope pathways scores (omitting distracter items) * higher scores indicate a person has higher hope
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Hope Scale Score
* self report (12 items), 4-point Likert scale(1=Definitely False to 4=Definitely True) * evaluates global hope (range 8-32); there are also 2 subscales: hope agency (range 4-16) and hope pathways (range 4-16) * includes distracter items * global hope score calculated by summing the hope agency and hope pathways scores (omitting distracter items) * higher scores indicate a person has higher hope
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
Change in Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) Score
* self report (14 items) to measure positive affect, satisfying interpersonal relationships, and positive functioning * 5-point Likert scale (1=none of the time to 5=all of the time) * total score is calculated by summing each item score (range 14-70) * higher scores represent increased levels of mental wellbeing
Time frame: from baseline to within one month after end of intervention
Change in Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) Score
* self report (14 items) to measure positive affect, satisfying interpersonal relationships, and positive functioning (range 14-70) * 5-point Likert scale (1=none of the time to 5=all of the time) * total score is calculated by summing each item score (range 14-70) * higher scores represent increased levels of mental wellbeing
Time frame: from baseline to approximately 3 months after end of intervention
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