Clinical trials: Loving-Kindness Meditation
Loneliness
Loving Kindness Meditation Among Adults 50 Years and Older
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the feasibility and acceptability of loving-kindness meditation among adults 50 years and older.
- Trial name
- NCT05350449
- Testing
- Loving-kindness Meditation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 59 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression
Loving-Kindness Meditation for PTSD
This randomized controlled trial will assess whether a novel complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) intervention, Loving-kindness Meditation (LKM), is not meaningfully inferior to another group-based PTSD treatment …
- Trial name
- NCT01962714
- Testing
- Loving-Kindness Meditation, Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 184 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Stress
Time, Touch, Attention and the Autonomic Nervous System
The purpose of this study is to describe the onset, duration and dose-response of interpersonal mindful compassion on respiratory rate and heart rate variability in healthy adults in order to prepare for research evaluating the…
- Trial name
- NCT01428674
- Testing
- Interpersonal Mindful Compassion with Touch, Reading while extending loving kindness
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University
Subjective Well-being, Self-Compassion
Online Interactive Meditation Training Enhances Well-being in Older Adults
Objective: This study examines the effects of online interactive meditation training on well-being in older adults. Methods: Older adults were assigned to either an online interactive meditation training group or an active…
- Conditions
- Subjective Well-being, Self-Compassion, Meaning of Life
- Trial name
- NCT07856953
- Testing
- online interactive meditation training group, An active control group learning about knowledge related to healthy aging
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 213 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Beijing Normal University
Affect (Mental Function), Compassion
A Pilot Study of Positive Affect Training
The primary objective of this study is a proof-of-concept study to test whether a novel mindfulness based intervention, Positive Affect Training (PAT), can enhance positive affect and compassion, and decrease negative affect and…
- Trial name
- NCT01853098
- Testing
- Positive Affect Training (PAT)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
Social Anxiety Disorder, Compassion
A Pilot Study of Loving-Kindness Meditation for Social Anxiety Disorder
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a mindfulness and loving-kindness based intervention, Positive Affect Training (PAT), to enhance positive affect such as compassion, love, and gratitude and reduce symptoms of…
- Trial name
- NCT03070587
- Testing
- Positive Affect Training for SAD
- Where
- Japan
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Komazawa University
Epilepsy, Mental Health
Compassion Focussed Therapy Informed Psychoeducation and Loving Kindness Meditation for Young People With Epilepsy
It has frequently been shown that people with long term physical health conditions, like epilepsy, are more likely to have mental health conditions.
- Conditions
- Epilepsy, Mental Health, Children
- Trial name
- NCT07265362
- Testing
- Compassion Focussed Therapy/Loving Kindness Meditation
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- University of Lincoln
Self-Compassion, Group B
The Effect and Mechanism of Self-compassion on Reducing Materialism
The current study provided an initial investigation of the effect of self-compassion on reducing materialism and explored the basic psychological needs and self-esteem as potential mechanisms. Two studies would be conducted.
- Trial name
- NCT06322069
- Testing
- Self-compassion intervention group
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 309 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Beijing Normal University
MM Group, LKCM Group
The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation and Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditation on Psychological Distress
The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of of mindfulness meditation and loving-kindness and compassion meditation on psychological distress (i.e., anxiety, depression, stress), and explore the mechanism from the…
- Conditions
- MM Group, LKCM Group, Waitlist Group
- Trial name
- NCT06360497
- Testing
- mindfulness meditation intervention and loving-kindness and compassion meditation intervention
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 152 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Beijing Normal University
Body Scan Meditation, Loving-Kindness Meditation
A Large Multi-site Study on Self-administered Mindfulness
The use of self-administered mindfulness interventions has increased in recent years. The effectiveness of these interventions on regulating stress/emotions, however, is debated.
- Conditions
- Body Scan Meditation, Loving-Kindness Meditation, Mindful Breathing Meditation, Mindful Walking Meditation
- Trial name
- NCT06308744
- Testing
- Body-scan meditation, Mindful Breathing meditation, Loving Kindness meditation
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 2,239 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Swansea University
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Loving-kindness Meditation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
A before and after study of veterans who took part in a 12-week loving-kindness meditation course as an adjunct to their usual care for posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Trial name
- NCT01607632
- Testing
- loving-kindness meditation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42 people
- Sponsor
- Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research
Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
The Effect of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Mood and Anxiety Symptoms, Interpersonal Relationships, and Emotions: An Initial Randomized Controlled Trial With a Non-Clinical Sample of Undergraduate Women
The goal of this clinical trial was to examine the effects of Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) on anhedonic depressivity, interpersonal relationships (other inclusive self-concept, willingness to sacrifice, interaction quality)…
- Trial name
- NCT07611253
- Testing
- Loving-Kindness Meditation, Visualization
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 240 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Luis Flores
Meditation
Kindness is Lesser Preferable Than Happiness: Investigating Interest in Different Effects of the Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditations
As an initial step, Study 1 intended to compare the interest in different effects of LKCM among a convenient sample of university students.
- Trial name
- NCT06424951
- Testing
- LKCM(Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditations)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 1,658 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Beijing Normal University