Active clinical trials for "Stress, Psychological"

This is a randomized trial of the 'Cultivating Healthy, intentional, Mindful Educators' (CHIME) intervention designed for early childhood educators. The intervention aims to enhance wellbeing, emotion regulation, and sensitive, responsive caregiving among educators by providing them with mindfulness, compassion-based techniques to alleviate stress and respond to emotional challenges in the classroom. The intervention ultimately aims to enhance children's self-regulation through sensitive, responsive caregiving. Measures of teachers' emotional regulation, wellbeing, and stress physiology will be collected pre- and post- the 8 week intervention and compared to a waitlist comparison group. Measures of child self-regulation also will be collected to assess the relation of teacher stress, wellbeing and emotion regulation to child self-regulation.

Emergency call centers across the country are preparing for the Next Generation 911 (NG911) initiative, which will allow citizens to place 9-1-1 "calls" using digital technologies such as text messaging, email, Skype or instant messaging, and will expand emergency information sources to also include streaming video, photo uploads, and automatic crash notifications. The impact of these new information and communication technologies on those tasked with using them in time-sensitive emergency situations is unknown. Our study is designed to address the following hypotheses: 1) We hypothesize that NG911 implementation will have a significant effect on telecommunicator stress levels and 2) A resiliency training tailored to the needs of telecommunicators will mitigate the impact on NG911 implementation on stress levels. We will test these hypotheses through the following specific aims: Aim 1: Measure levels of stress, job satisfaction and job performance among 9-1-1 telecommunicators before and after the NG911 implementation. Aim 2: Develop and test the efficacy of an evidence-based resiliency training and worker support intervention to improve psychological well-being and job performance of 9-1-1 telecommunicators. Aim 3: Build an ABM tool of 9-1-1 call centers to improve 9-1-1 telecommunicator workforce training and smooth transitions to future call center innovations.

The purpose of this project is to study whether a mindfulness-based training program supports self-regulation, resiliency, effective classroom behaviors, and persistence in teaching.

The aim of this study was to determine whether there was an association between resilience and the performance of student nurse anaesthetists in simulated critical situations.

The goal of this observational study is to compare the paternal hair cortisol as a marker for chronic stress in prematurely born children to maturely born children. The main questions it aims to answer are: How differ the cortisol level between groups? How change the cortisol level over time? Are there secondary outcomes associated to the cortisol level of fathers? Participants will give a hair sample to analyse the cortisol level and fill out questionnaires at three time points. At six months of the infant's age, the investigators will also measure the paternal sensitivity.

The investigators aim to evaluate the Mindfulness Based Resilience Training (MBRT) intervention for Mayo Clinic employees in order to provide evidence for improved ability to cope with stress and decreased work-related burnout and stress-related symptoms as a result of MBRT training. In addition, the investigators aim to compare the effects of MBRT + smartphone sleep feedback, a smartphone resilience intervention + smartphone sleep feedback, or waitlist control +smartphone sleep feedback in a randomized clinical trial in a sample of 75 Mayo Clinic employees.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a guided imagery intervention on perceived stress in pregnant adolescents.

The SHINE study is a randomized controlled study of the effect of a park-based family support group on multiple outcomes (including stress and physical activity) in a low income population.

The investigators propose to evaluate how the CenteringPregnancy curriculum compared with an enhanced curriculum, with the addition of 2 trauma-informed interventions, affects how new parents prepare for parenting and respond to common stressors.

This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of propranolol will shed important light on how sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation influences psychological and inflammatory responses to acute stress. Results from this study will inform both the basic science literature that is attempting to map the physiological mechanisms by which psychological stress may lead to poor mental and physical health, and may also ultimately have therapeutic relevance for individuals who are experiencing high levels of stress that is putting their health at risk. Utilizing a psychopharmacological approach allows for the circumvention of many of the challenges of conducting this research in human populations, and will allow for conclusions regarding causality, given that SNS activation will be experimentally manipulated, rather than relying on correlational measures of SNS activity that are difficult to assess and are not appropriate for asking if SNS activity causes changes in psychology and biology.