TY - JOUR
T1 - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for improving subjective well-being among healthy individuals
T2 - Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
AU - Sado, Mitsuhiro
AU - Kosugi, Teppei
AU - Ninomiya, Akira
AU - Nagaoka, Maki
AU - Park, Sunre
AU - Fujisawa, Daisuke
AU - Shirahase, Joichiro
AU - Mimura, Masaru
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Dr Yasunori Sato for advice on statistical analysis and Editage for English-language editing. This study was funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology (KAKENHI grant number: 16K08881). The funding source has no role in developing the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Mitsuhiro Sado, Teppei Kosugi, Akira Ninomiya, Maki Nagaoka, Sunre Park, Daisuke Fujisawa, Joichiro Shirahase, Masaru Mimura.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Background: Previous studies have indicated that higher subjective well-being works as a protective factor for health. Some studies have already shown the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on improving subjective well-being. However, these studies targeted specific populations rather than the general public. Furthermore, they assessed either life evaluation or affective aspects of subjective well-being rather than the concept as a whole, including the eudemonic aspect of well-being. Objective: This study aims to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for improving the wholistic aspects of subjective well-being in healthy individuals. Methods: This study was an 8-week, randomized, parallel-group, superiority trial with a 2-month follow-up. Healthy individuals aged 20-65 years with scores lower than 25 on the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) were eligible to participate and randomly allocated to the MBCT group or the wait-list control group. The intervention program was developed by modifying an MBCT program to improve the well-being of a nonclinical population. The primary outcome was the difference between the two groups in mean change scores from the baseline on the SWLS. The secondary outcomes included scores on the Flourishing Scale and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience as well as the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. Results: This study began recruiting participants in July 2018 and recruitment was completed at the end of September 2019. Data collection and dataset construction was completed by the end of March 2020. Conclusions: This study is unique in that it investigates MBCT's effects on the three different aspects of subjective well-being: Life evaluation, affect, and eudemonia. It is limited, as the specific effect attributable to MBCT cannot be detected because of the lack of an active control group.
AB - Background: Previous studies have indicated that higher subjective well-being works as a protective factor for health. Some studies have already shown the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on improving subjective well-being. However, these studies targeted specific populations rather than the general public. Furthermore, they assessed either life evaluation or affective aspects of subjective well-being rather than the concept as a whole, including the eudemonic aspect of well-being. Objective: This study aims to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for improving the wholistic aspects of subjective well-being in healthy individuals. Methods: This study was an 8-week, randomized, parallel-group, superiority trial with a 2-month follow-up. Healthy individuals aged 20-65 years with scores lower than 25 on the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) were eligible to participate and randomly allocated to the MBCT group or the wait-list control group. The intervention program was developed by modifying an MBCT program to improve the well-being of a nonclinical population. The primary outcome was the difference between the two groups in mean change scores from the baseline on the SWLS. The secondary outcomes included scores on the Flourishing Scale and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience as well as the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. Results: This study began recruiting participants in July 2018 and recruitment was completed at the end of September 2019. Data collection and dataset construction was completed by the end of March 2020. Conclusions: This study is unique in that it investigates MBCT's effects on the three different aspects of subjective well-being: Life evaluation, affect, and eudemonia. It is limited, as the specific effect attributable to MBCT cannot be detected because of the lack of an active control group.
KW - Cost-effectiveness
KW - Healthy individuals
KW - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
KW - Randomized controlled trial
KW - Subjective well-being
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U2 - 10.2196/15892
DO - 10.2196/15892
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084355760
SN - 1929-0748
VL - 9
JO - JMIR Research Protocols
JF - JMIR Research Protocols
IS - 5
M1 - e15892
ER -