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Mindfulness Meditation Training in Lonely Older Adults

孤独老年人的正念冥想训练

基本信息

批准号：
9898542
负责人：
John David Creswell
金额：
$ 0.71万
依托单位：
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-09-15 至 2020-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9898542
关键词：
Address Aftercare Age Alzheimer&apos s Disease Behavior Therapy Biological Markers Blood specimen Buffers C-reactive protein Cardiovascular Diseases Cellular Phone Chronic Control Groups Disease Distress Ecological momentary assessment Elderly Frequencies Gene Expression Health Health education Human IL6 gene Individual Inflammation Inflammatory Interleukin-6 Intervention Intervention Studies Laboratories Life Loneliness Measures Mental Depression Mental Health Mindfulness Training Modeling Morbidity - disease rate Participant Perception Pilot Projects Population Premature Mortality Public Health Questionnaires Randomized Randomized Controlled Trials Research Risk Risk Factors Sample Size Sampling Smoking Social Interaction Structure Testing Time Training Training and Education United States Work active method base circulating biomarkers disorder risk experience follow-up improved inflammatory marker innovation mindfulness mindfulness meditation mindfulness-based stress reduction mortality mortality risk negative affect novel patient population physical conditioning post intervention programs psychologic psychological distress response social success treatment program

项目摘要

The broad aim of this research is to evaluate whether mindfulness meditation training reduces loneliness, improves social relationship functioning, and improves biomarkers of inflammation in lonely older adults. Lonely older adults (aged 55+ years) are a population that is increasing in size in the United States relative to other segments of the population and they have significantly elevated health risks (e.g., increased inflammation, cardiovascular disease, depression, and premature mortality). Interventions that can reduce loneliness have significant potential to reduce the elevated morbidity and premature mortality in this growing but understudied patient population. Previous RCT studies that have attempted to reduce loneliness in older adults have had limited success. In a pilot study, we found that an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program reduced loneliness and inflammation in lonely older adults (Creswell et al., 2012). This proposal describes an innovative and well-controlled RCT of MBSR in lonely older adults (N=188), comparing MBSR to a structurally equivalent 8-week Health Education Program (HEP) and a no treatment control condition. Participants will complete questionnaires, daily experience sampling (using pre-programmed smartphones), and provide blood samples at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up. This proposed study will test three specific aims that are guided by a novel conceptual model: (1) mindfulness meditation training reduces loneliness; (2) the effects of mindfulness meditation training on loneliness are explained by reductions in relational distress in daily life interactions; and (3) mindfulness meditation training reduces biomarkers of inflammatory disease risk that are elevated in lonely older adults (pro-inflammatory gene expression, C Reactive Protein, and Interleukin-6). The information provided by this study has the potential to: (a) identify a novel treatment for loneliness in older adults; (b) reveal a social psychological mechanism for this effect (i.e., reductions in daily life relational distress); and to (c) describe the health protective consequences of this treatment on inflammatory disease risk in this at-risk patient population.

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