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Attention to Variability - Patient Only for Female Infertility

N/A

Waitlist Available

Led By Katherine Bercovitz

Research Sponsored by Harvard University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up approximately 11 minutes

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will investigate whether mindfulness interventions can help improve wellbeing for people with infertility and their partners.

Eligible Conditions

Female Infertility
Male Infertility
Infertility

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ approximately 11 minutes

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~approximately 11 minutes

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and approximately 11 minutes for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Patient and Partner Wellbeing - Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI)

Patient and Partner Wellbeing - Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS)

Patient and Partner Wellbeing - Narrative question about their mind-body experience

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Secondary outcome measures

Ability to become pregnant

Trial Design

5Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Attention to Variability - Patient OnlyExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at three different points in time, including one narrative response at T2. They will also be instructed to complete a mindfulness intervention at home and respond to diary-type text messaging questions twice daily for two weeks (14 days).

Group II: Attention to Variability - Patient & PartnerExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at three different points in time, including one narrative response at T2. All participants (patients and partners) will also be instructed to complete a mindfulness intervention at home and respond to diary-type text messaging questions twice daily for two weeks (14 days).

Group III: Attention to Variability - Partner OnlyExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at three different points in time, including one narrative response at T2. Partners of the infertile women will also be instructed to complete a mindfulness intervention at home and respond to diary-type text messaging questions twice daily for two weeks (14 days).

Group IV: Infertility Stories - ReadingActive Control1 Intervention

All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at three different points in time, including one narrative response at T2. They will also be instructed to do an at-home reading activity several times over a period of 2 weeks.

Group V: Waitlist ControlActive Control1 Intervention

All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at three different points in time, including one narrative response at T2.

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