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Feasibility and effectiveness of a worry-reduction training using the smartphone: a pilot randomised controlled trial.
- Source :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling; Apr2020, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p227-239, 13p, 2 Diagrams, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Worry is an important mediator in the relation between stressors and health. This pilot study examined whether a smartphone-based in time worry-reduction training was feasible and improved physiological health (i.e. increased heart rate variability [HRV]). A total of 26 high-worriers were randomised to an experimental or active-control condition (EC and CC respectively). Participants in both conditions registered emotions 5 times daily for a month. The EC additionally received worry-reduction training with mindfulness exercises. Primary outcomes were feasibility and HRV measured at baseline, after 2 weeks (halfway), and at 4 weeks (post-intervention). Both training conditions were feasible and well received. HRV increased in the EC and CC, but this increase did not differ between conditions. Preliminary findings suggest that both training conditions are feasible and might improve HRV, which is an important predictor of cardiovascular disease. This pilot study only provided preliminary evidence, but it laid the groundwork for future randomised controlled trials that ought to include more participants and a waitlist control group in order to get more definitive evidence of the effectiveness of the intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AFFECT (Psychology)
COGNITION
EMOTIONS
HEART beat
HEALTH outcome assessment
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
STRESS management
MATHEMATICAL variables
WORRY
PILOT projects
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
VISUAL analog scale
SMARTPHONES
DATA analysis software
STATE-Trait Anxiety Inventory
MINDFULNESS
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03069885
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 143382331
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2017.1421310