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Effect of an ACT-based Intervention to Reduce Anxiety in Medical Students
Sponsor: University of Guadalajara
Summary
Objective: To evaluate the association between ACT-process with negative psychological variables in a cross-sectional design, and to evaluate the effect of an ACT-based intervention to diminish anxiety in a sample of medical students. Methods: An ACT-based intervention was designed to diminish anxiety in medical students and implemented in 4 in-person sessions, the pre-test and post-test measurements were performed one week before and one week after the first and last sessions respectively. The control group received a mental health psychoeducational intervention of 90 minutes. The students were intentionally assigned to each study group based on schedule availability. The cross-sectional study was performed with the pre-test measurements in the students of both groups.\<
Official title: "Effect of an Intervention Based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to Increase Psychological Flexibility and Reduce Anxiety in Medical Students of the Health Sciences University Center"
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 26 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
135
Start Date
2024-08-05
Completion Date
2025-12-14
Last Updated
2026-09-10
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
ACT_based intervention
Session number Objective General procedure 1. \- Acceptance To facilitate the development of acceptance regarding unpleasant internal experiences (thoughts, emotions and physical sensations related with anxiety) 2. \- Defusion and contact with the present moment. To reduce the impact of thoughts in anxiety or psychological distress by developing skills for cognitive defusion, by observing thoughts without becoming entangled in them, and conscious contact with the present moment. 3. \- Me as a context and living values To foster a flexible perspective of the self (self as a context) and clarify personal values as compass for behavior, regardless of the presence of difficult internal experiences 4. \- Committed action: promote execution of behaviors aligned with personal values
Active Control group
This group received a 90-minutes psychoeducational session about mental health including a brief explanation of what anxiety is, its risk factors and symptoms and techniques for anxiety regulation including the psychological interventions as Behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness, and the description of conductual changes that can reduce anxiety.
Locations (1)
University of Guadalajara, Health Sciences University Center
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico