Resilience

The goal of this study is to learn if a meditation intervention called Transcendental Meditation or TM can be used in a small department at Weill Cornell Medicine to help reduce employees' levels of burnout, anxiety, insomnia, and depression as well as to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the meditation practice by Weill Cornell employees. The main question the study aims to answer is whether: • Levels of burnout, anxiety, insomnia, and depression will be decreased, and overall mental well-being will improve over a 3.5-month period before and after TM intervention. Participants will attend 9 sessions total (8 group sessions and 1 individual session) with a certified TM instructor from The David Lynch Foundation Institute for Mental Health and Resilience where they will gain experience in proper TM techniques. Also, participants will conduct 2 of their own TM sessions at home daily during the course of this study.

The purpose of this study is to pilot two resilience interventions for cardiac arrest survivors and their informal caregivers, Recovering Together after Cardiac Arrest 1 and Recovering Together after Cardiac Arrest 2 . The data the investigators gather in this study will be used to further refine the interventions.

The goal of this non-randomized trial is to partially digitalize and develop a web-based resilience-building intervention and pilot-test its feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness in an undergraduate sample over a 6-month implementation period. The main questions it aims to answer are: * What are the rates of recruitment, adoption, and full program completion? * What is the intervention's overall effectiveness in enhancing resilience and mental health outcomes? Researchers will compare the partially digitalized intervention with a structurally equivalent in-person mode of delivery.

This project will evaluate the effectiveness of Level Up: Boost Your Life Skills ("Level Up"), a strengths based, military-specific life skills training program. The goal is to determine whether Level Up can decrease suicidal-related behaviors (SRBs) and other harmful behaviors, improve mental health, enhance job performance, and reduce early military separation. The Level Up program components will be made available to participants through an online platform or mobile app that can be downloaded onto their personal mobile devices. These training materials will help Soldiers learn and practice skills. The Level Up program will also involve personalized messages from a Level Up trainer and virtual booster sessions. Active duty Soldiers who are currently stationed at Fort Hood, Texas and are members of a participating platoon will be randomized to receive either Level Up or Training as Usual (TAU). Participants will complete baseline and follow up surveys 1, 3, and 6 months post-baseline.

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effects of a connection-enhancement program on resilience, perceived stress, burnout, and intention to stay among newly employed Generation Z nurses in a military hospital. Approximately 80 eligible nurses will be randomly assigned to either an intervention group or a control group. The control group will receive conventional orientation education for newly employed nurses, whereas the intervention group will receive the connection-enhancement program in addition to conventional orientation education. The intervention will be delivered over four weeks, with one 50-60-minute session per week. Outcomes will be assessed before and after the intervention using self-reported questionnaires and salivary cortisol measurements.

The goal of this 15-month cluster clinical trial is to compare a resilience and stress management program to a physical activity program for early childhood education (ECE) staff on change in well-being. It will also look to see if changes in well-being continue over time. The study sample will include 80 child care centers. Including 80 ECE center directors and approximately 560 ECE center staff. Some ECE centers will receive only the remotely delivered Resilience program. This program works with ECE staff and helps them recognize and strengthen their resilience assets and resources. Other ECE centers will receive only the remotely delivered Physical Activity program that will focus on staff physical activity habits and strength training. There will be 3 months of active program participation and 12 months of a maintenance period where participants will only have access to program materials.

Population aging has increased the number of older adults exposed to interventions with high physiological demand, which are associated with frequent adverse outcomes such as delirium, organ dysfunction, and delayed functional recovery. Current clinical tools, such as frailty assessments, help identify higher-risk populations but do not adequately explain the marked individual variability in recovery or accurately predict who will develop complications. This variability may be partly explained by individual resilience, defined as the ability to recover toward, return to, or even surpass a prior functional state after an acute stressor. Evidence suggests that biological mechanisms related to aging influence resilience; however, biomarkers and integrated clinical models capable of characterizing and potentially modulating resilience in humans remain limited. Therefore, a standardized clinical platform is needed to characterize physiological resilience and its determinants, generating actionable knowledge to improve risk stratification, guide interventions, and optimize recovery in older adults. To this end, a single-center prospective cohort study will be conducted at Clinica Bicentenario Santiago, including individuals aged ≥65 years who are independent or have mild dependency and are undergoing elective cardiac surgery requiring sternotomy for valvular and/or coronary artery disease, recruited between 2026 and 2027. Participants will undergo a baseline assessment 2-3 weeks before surgery; an early postoperative assessment focused on the systematic recording of clinical outcomes, including delirium and organ dysfunction; and longitudinal follow-up to characterize recovery after discharge. Follow-up assessments will include frailty, intrinsic capacity (the composite of an individual's physical and mental capacities across the cognitive, locomotor, psychological, vitality, and sensory domains), functional status, health-related quality of life, and perceived fatigability, according to the prespecified assessment schedule. In addition, blood samples will be collected at three time points (baseline, 24 hours postoperatively, and one month after surgery) to measure plasma levels of growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15), a biomarker associated with aging-related biological stress and systemic responses to tissue injury. It is projected that at least 75 participants will be recruited over a 12-month period, allowing characterization of baseline clinical and functional profiles, the frequency of postoperative complications and organ dysfunction, trajectories of recovery, and associations between baseline characteristics, biological markers, and subsequent recovery outcomes.

This study is enrolled in the European KEEPCARING Project. KEEPCARING aims to (re-)build wellbeing and resilience of healthcare workforce in EU hospitals by co-creating a multi-faceted non-digital, digital, and AI-supported solution package to prevent burnout among (aspirant) healthcare professionals on the individual, team, and organizational level. This study specifically investigate the operating room staff wellbeing and resilience. The healthcare system is currently struggling to retain and attract operating room personnel. A factor of importance to consider here is occupational stress. If not recognized or mitigated well, occupational stress and personal efficacy can eventually evolve into a syndrome labelled as 'burnout'. In addition, communication and resilience patterns between operating room staff members are of influence, poor and/or inadequate communication among staff may be a factor of stress, compromising their work and wellbeing. In contrast, communication patterns that have a high standard and clarity may support resilience. The ability to speak up and being able to advocate concerns of all team members is of the highest importance here. Indeed, psychological safety and effective teamwork patterns are key for the working environment, performance, patient safety, and job satisfaction. To prevent mistakes during surgery, a safe space where team members can freely speak up is vital. To improve psychological safety, and teamwork among OR staff, team debriefing after surgery is known to be effective. What is not known; is whether team debriefing with the additional support derived from audio- and video recordings of the surgery is equally effective as debriefing without. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of structured postoperative debriefings with and without procedural, structured audio- and video recordings, on team performance, psychological safety, and non-technical skills in the operating room. Specifically, this study aims to compare augmented debriefings with non-augmented debriefings, to assess differences in perceived usefulness, psychological safety, and observed improvements in teams' non-technical skills. This is an international quasi-experimental comparative study. The intervention consists of postoperative team debriefing using audio and video recordings ('augmented debriefing') from Operating Room Black Box system provided by Surgical Safety Technologies. The control group will have a postoperative team debriefing that is not augmented with Operating Room Black Box derived data. An identical debriefing template will be designed for both groups.

The purpose of this study is to determine and verify whether a school-based group intervention using the digital mental health platform NAVO:J can effectively improve the mental health of adolescents-particularly reducing depression, anxiety, and stress while enhancing resilience.

The goal of the Life Force study is to (1) evaluate the efficacy of targeted, skills-based training for enhancing mental toughness and mitigating harmful and high-risk behaviors in active-duty Soldiers, and (2) to determine who benefits the most from this type of training. Researchers will compare the training group to a control group. All participants will complete a baseline survey and two follow up surveys at 6 and 12 months post-baseline. The group assigned to the Life Force training condition will also complete a 5-session, group-based, skills training program.

The goal of this pilot randomised controlled trial is to examine the effects of a mindfulness-based music breathing intervention in enhancing resilience (primary outcome), and in reducing anxiety, depressive symptoms, loneliness, and improving health-related quality of life (secondary outcomes) among community-dwelling older adults at risk of mental health problems. It is hypothesised that compared with the control group, participants in the intervention group will report enhanced resilience, reduced anxiety, depressive symptoms, and loneliness, and improved health-related quality of life immediately post-intervention.

This study investigates the effectiveness of an extended reality (XR) based resilience training program designed to support the mental health and well-being of nurses working in hospital settings. Nurses are exposed to high emotional, cognitive, and organizational demands and show elevated levels of work-related stress and stress-associated mental health problems. Strengthening resilience and coping capacities is therefore an important preventive approach to support nurses' well-being and sustain quality of care. The study is conducted as a pragmatic randomized controlled trial with a waitlist control group and includes approximately 232 nurses from hospitals in several European countries. Participants are randomly assigned either to an XR-based resilience training group or to a waitlist control group that continues with care as usual during the waiting period. The XR-based intervention consists of eight immersive training sessions delivered over approximately ten weeks using a head-mounted display. The training focuses on behavioral, cognitive, and emotional coping strategies and aims to enhance key resilience factors such as problem-solving, cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation, and positive self-care. The primary outcome is perceived stress, assessed using the Perceived Stress Scale. Secondary outcomes include resilience, occupational self-efficacy, quality of life, psychological distress, burnout symptoms, coping strategies, work-related rumination, and turnover intentions. Assessments are conducted at baseline, post-intervention, and at a 20-week follow-up. In addition, a subgroup of participants will optionally provide physiological data during selected XR sessions to explore digital biomarkers related to stress and recovery. The findings of this study will provide evidence on the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptance of XR-based resilience training for nurses and inform future implementation of digital mental health interventions in healthcare workplaces.

Midwifery students are exposed to multifaceted stressors such as traumatic and unsupportive clinical experiences and psychosocial burdens; this can negatively impact emotional well-being, leading to secondary traumatic stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and decreased sense of belonging. In this context, there is a growing need for structured and supportive interventions aimed at strengthening students' self-efficacy, resilience, and perceptions of social support. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of the Student Midwife Support Circle Intervention on midwifery students' levels of burnout, resilience, and professional belonging.

This study aims to evaluate outcomes from the Shields \& Stripes (S\&S) program - a 12-week, multidisciplinary wellness intervention designed for veterans and first responders. The S\&S program integrates occupational therapy (OT), mental health (MH), physical therapy (PT), and registered dietitian (RD) services to promote recovery, resilience, and performance in individuals who have experienced cumulative stress, trauma exposure, or occupational burnout. This research will use a retrospective mixed-methods observational design to analyze data collected from previous S\&S participants who consent to research use of their de-identified information. No intervention or treatment changes will occur as part of this study. Quantitative data will include biometric information (e.g., sleep, activity, and heart rate variability via Oura Ring), standardized self-report measures (GAD-7, PHQ-9, PCL-5, RAND-36, PSQI, ISI), satisfaction surveys, and laboratory nutrition panels. Qualitative data will include semi-structured interviews with consenting participants and S\&S providers following program completion. The purpose of the study is to identify patterns of improvement in physical, psychological, and occupational functioning and to explore how integrated, team-based care supports holistic recovery. Findings may inform the development of future evidence-based wellness programs for military and first-responder populations. Participation involves minimal risk, and all data will be de-identified before analysis.

The purpose of this research study is to determine whether COMA-F is more efficacious at reducing emotional distress in caregivers of patients with severe acute brain injuries, compared to health education control.

This randomized controlled trial aims to determine whether access to a mental health app improves resilience and reduces depressive symptoms among medical students over a three-month period. Compared to the control group, researchers hypothesized that medical students in the intervention group are expected to show: * Significant reductions in depressive symptoms and greater improvements in resilience after three months of usage. * Significant reduction in thoughts of self-harm and anxiety, and improvement in self-esteem after three months of usage. Researchers will compare two groups to evaluate the app's impact on wellbeing: * Intervention group: Receives immediate full access to the mental health app. * Control group: Receives basic, without full access to the mental health app. Participants will explore and experience the various features offered in the mental health app over a three-month period.

Guided by the process model of emotion regulation, integrative affect-regulation framework for resilience, and the reciprocal dynamics of emotion, affect, and resilience in the family system, researchers will develop a parallel intervention to incorporate two key members in Mainland-Hong Kong cross-boundary families: a parent and a child by improving their affect/emotion regulation skills, de-escalate family conflicts, and flourish under hardships. Specifically, researchers predict that participants in the intervention group will report greater improvement in resilience, emotion regulation, psychological well-being, family harmony, and social connectedness than those in the control group.

This is a multi-centre randomised controlled trial aims to examine the effects of a group-based gamified instrumental musical training in enhancing resilience (primary outcome), reducing psychological distress (depressive symptoms and anxiety), enhancing self-esteem, and improving HRQoL (secondary outcomes) among underprivileged school-aged children at risk of mental health problems (depression and anxiety) during a 12-month follow-up.

The aim of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to investigate the effectiveness of a culturally adapted internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (i-CBT) intervention in reducing symptoms of common mental health issues among Farsi/Dari-speaking youth migrants and refugees. Investigator hypothesizes that there will be a significant decrease in psychological symptoms after participants receive the intervention compared to a control group.

Healthspan Connect is a new research programme designed to understand what helps people stay healthy as they age. The programme will explore how lifestyle, environment, genetics, and social factors influence healthy ageing and overall wellbeing. The programme will recruit participants aged 12 years and older across the UK. By including adolescents, the programme aims to understand how early life behaviours and experiences shape long-term health. There is no upper age limit, and people from all backgrounds are encouraged to participate. Special pathways ensure that young participants provide consent in an age-appropriate way. Healthspan Connect is a digital and home-based study, meaning participants can take part from home using smartphones, computers, and online surveys. Participants may also be asked to collect samples such as blood, saliva, stool, urine, or other biological specimens at home using easy-to-use kits. In some sub-studies, participants may be invited to attend research visits for additional tests, scans, or clinical assessments. Family members and close contacts may also be invited to participate in some studies. Through Healthspan Connect, researchers aim to: * Identify the biological, environmental, and social factors that help people live longer, healthier lives. * Understand how different groups, including those historically underrepresented in research, experience ageing. * Explore ways to support behaviour changes that improve health over the lifespan. * Provide near real-time information to inform health policies and interventions. Participants may also be asked for permission to link their information with health records, education records, and environmental data to better understand health outcomes over time. This programme will serve as a flexible platform for multiple sub-studies, allowing participants to contribute to a wide range of research questions related to healthy ageing, resilience, and long-term health. All data and biological samples will be stored securely and used to advance scientific knowledge, with participant privacy carefully protected.

Psychological issues are common among university students and affect mental wellbeing. The Caring Universities (CU) project, involving nine Dutch universities, aims to enhance students' mental health through an annual online questionnaire and a platform offering guided eHealth interventions. One intervention, LifeHack, utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy-based modules to improve mental wellbeing by enhancing resilience and life skills. The effects of LifeHack with pre-post measurements (total n = 216 at post-test) found found that LifeHack led to improvements in mental wellbeing, but dropout rates were influenced by lack of motivation and module relevance. A personalized version of LifeHack is being developed to address these issues and will be evaluated in an RCT to assess its effectiveness in improving mental wellbeing and related outcomes among university students.

The goal of this three-armed, double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to compare the effectiveness of an online self-help eCoaching intervention designed for caregivers. The main questions it aims to answer are: What is the impact of the online self-help eCoaching intervention on the well-being, depressive symptoms, and self-efficacy of participants? Researchers will compare the results between the intervention groups and the control group to see if participants in the intervention groups have lower distress, burden and higher accuracy.

The psychological well-being of healthcare workers in hospital settings is a topic of growing interest in the scientific literature, given the crucial importance of their role in ensuring high-quality care. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic health emergency has further accentuated the relevance of this issue, increasing anxiety and stress levels, testing the resilience and resistance of those working in care settings, revealing and highlighting how the accumulation of work-related stress can result in disabling pathologies for the caregiver, with an inevitable impact on the facility and care in general. Recent studies show that health care workers are particularly vulnerable to work-related stress, which can result from various factors such as high work demands, emotional pressure, irregular shifts, and interactions with critically ill patients. Burnout syndrome, characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment, is widely documented among hospital staff. Research indicates that burnout not only compromises the psychological health of healthcare workers, but also negatively affects the quality of care provided by increasing the risk of medical errors. In light of these factors, it is crucial to deepen our understanding of the dynamics that influence psychological well-being and work-related stress in health care workers in order to develop effective interventions that can improve their quality of life and consequently the quality of care provided to patients. Preliminary assessment of the emotional burden and motivational aspects of health care workers (showing what very often eludes a first glance, making visible something that is often invisible), along with effective stress management, would allow for greater ability to remain calm under pressure, reduced frustration, increased ability to make informed decisions, and to communicate effectively with patients and colleagues. These aspects translate into an image of a safer and more caring health care system in promoting better quality of care. The aim of this project is to highlight the importance of psychological wellbeing for those working in health care settings and to promote attention to this area, also with a view to identifying possible interventions aimed at identifying preventive and protective factors in relation to health care workers. The aim, therefore, is to show what is very often invisible at first sight, to make visible what is invisible: to explore, accommodate and contain areas of criticality and fragility in the context of work in health care settings, working on interventions aimed at the psychological well-being of workers.

There is a critical gap in access to mental health promotion, prevention and support among youth worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries like Vietnam. The Y-PRIME Study aims to respond to this gap by co-designing with Vietnamese youth a mobile app that delivers life skills and self-management skills intervention to promote mental well-being in grade 10 Vietnamese students. Working with the Vietnam Youth Advisory Council (V-YAC) to adapt and co-design the intervention and app ensure that the intervention will be culturally appropriate and relevant to Vietnamese youth. The goal of the current phase is to test this intervention with grade 10 students across three provinces (Hanoi, Thai Binh, and Hung Yen) to assess: 1. Whether the app helps to improve mental well-being and resilience among youth in Vietnam and helps to reduce factors that might increase the risk of poor mental well-being, like stress related to school and other pressures 2. Whether the app can be delivered in Vietnamese schools 3. Whether Vietnamese youth and school staff think the app is appropriate and appealing for youth in order to scale-up the model across the country The control group (meaning they do not have access to the app-based intervention) will complete the outcome survey at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. After 12 months, they will gain access to the intervention app (at the same time as the experimental group) but no more data will be collected. The intervention group will use the app at their own pace for 1 year while completing the same survey at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months marks. Afterwards, students and school health staff will be invited to a focus group discussion to talk about their experience using the app.

The aim of this project is to examine the effects of the Laughter Yoga Supported Strong Woman, Safe Life Education Program applied to women on attitudes towards violence, stress coping styles and psychological flexibility. The problem of violence against women is a public health problem that affects and concerns not only women at the individual level, but also children, all family members and therefore society. According to the data of the Turkish Statistical Institute in our country, 38% of women have been subjected to spousal or partner violence at some point in their lives. Violence or the threat of violence that causes fear, pain and anxiety in women from an individual perspective; constitutes an obstacle to women's more active and productive participation in economic and social life, especially in the private sphere. From a social perspective, the economic cost of violence against women is extremely high in terms of loss of working hours and wages, social services, legal and medical expenses. Our country has a culturally patriarchal social structure. Living in a patriarchal order affects beliefs and attitudes towards the acceptance of violence, making women more vulnerable to violence. Living in a patriarchal order affects beliefs and attitudes towards acceptance of violence, making women more vulnerable to violence. When the reasons for submissive behaviors towards violence are examined, it is stated that factors such as having children, low self-esteem, religious beliefs, social pressure, emotional attachment to a long-term relationship, running away from home, arranged marriage, being economically dependent on the spouse and low level of education are effective. Accepting violence encourages aggression and causes violent people to legitimize their actions. It is stated that submissive and accepting attitudes towards violence can be changed. Interventions aimed at empowering women play an important role in reducing attitudes accepting violence. It is anticipated that this project will create an opportunity for women to raise awareness about violence and change their accepting attitudes towards violence. The proposed project consists of THREE stages. The first stage, PREPARATION stage; includes preparation of data collection tools, determination and informing of scholarship recipients, development of training content and tools, preliminary application and determination of the working group. The second stage is the IMPLEMENTATION stage, which includes collecting pre-test data, loading public transportation fees onto participants' cards for transportation, providing training to the intervention group, and collecting post-test data. The third stage is the MONITORING-EVALUATION stage, which is the stage of collecting follow-up test data and conducting analyses. The research will be conducted as a randomized controlled parallel group intervention study. The universe of the research will consist of 7988 women registered in 24 Women's Education and Culture Centers (KEKM) affiliated with Altındağ Municipality. 1 center will be randomly selected from 24 Women's Education and Culture Centers for the sample of the research. In this study, the smallest sample size was determined as 43 for each group, totaling 86, at 80% statistical power and α=.05 significance level. Considering the 10% data loss in the determined sample size, it was planned to include a total of 94 participants, 47 for each group. The assignment of the women included in the research to the intervention (47 participants) and control (47 participants) groups will be done by randomization method. The aim is to implement the Laughter Yoga Supported Strong Woman, Safe Life Training Program face-to-face for an 8-week period for the participants in the intervention group. The 47 participants in the intervention group will be divided into 3 separate groups (16 participants, 16 participants and 15 participants) to increase interaction and experience sharing. The project team will implement the Laughter Yoga Supported Strong Woman, Safe Life Training Program consisting of 8 modules to 3 separate groups. The intervention group will be given a pre-test before the training, a post-test after the training and a follow-up test 1 month after the training is completed. It is planned to collect data by conducting a pre-test, post-test and follow-up test simultaneously with the experimental group without any intervention for the control group. Data will be collected using the Attitude Towards Violence in Close Relationships Scale, the Psychological Flexibility Scale and the Styles of Coping with Stress Scale. Institutional permission will be obtained from the Ankara University Ethics Committee and the Altındağ Municipality. In this project, with the "Strong Woman, Safe Life Training Program Supported by Laughter Yoga", women will be provided with training on the Importance of Self-Knowledge and Communication, Stress and Coping Techniques, Gender, Empowerment