Recruiting

Health & Resiliency

Sponsor:

Loma Linda University

Code:

NCT05956756

Conditions

Health and Wellbeing of Occupational Therapy Students

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Health and resiliency programming

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of integrated health and resiliency programs into the Entry-Level Doctor of Occupational therapy curriculum.

The objectives are to:

1. Determine if students perceive health and resiliency programming as beneficial for their health and well-being
2. Determine if students' lifestyle behaviors, self-esteem, attachment security, and mindfulness improve with health and resiliency programming
3. Determine if students' symptoms of depression and anxiety reduce after participating in health and resiliency programs

Students will engage in resilience programming as part of their regular coursework and be invited to complete pre and post assessments to test the effectiveness of programming.

Conditions

Health and Wellbeing of Occupational Therapy Students

Study ID

NCT05956756

Start date

Aug 7, 2023

Status verified date

Feb, 2026

Completion date

Dec, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • students enrolled in the Entry Level Doctor of Occupational Therapy program at Loma Linda University
  • Enrolled during June 2023 to June 2029
  • Between 18-65 years of age
  • Of any gender
  • Of any ethnic background

Exclusion Criteria:

  • N/A

Study Design

Enrollment

130 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Intervention

Occupational therapy students will engage in health and resiliency programming as part of their course work over their three year program.

Interventions

Health and resiliency programming

Students will engage in resilience programming as part of their regular coursework including mindfulness training, lifestyle medicine interventions, and creating a coping plan.

Primary outcome measure

  • Health Promoting Lifestyle II (Walker, Sechrist, & Pender, 1987) [ Time Frame: Three years ]
  • Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1989) [ Time Frame: Three years ]
  • State Adult Attachment Measure (Gillath et al., 2009) [ Time Frame: Three years ]
  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9; Kroenke et al., 2001) [ Time Frame: Three years ]
  • General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7; Williams, 2014) [ Time Frame: Three years ]
  • 15-Facet mindfulness questionnaire (Baer et al., 2008) [ Time Frame: Three years ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Dragana Krpalek, PhD

9095584628dkrpalek@llu.edu

Heather Javaherian, OTD

9095584628hjavaherian@llu.edu

Locations

Loma Linda Universtiy

Recruiting

Loma Linda, California, United States, 92350

Contacts

Dragana Krpalek, PhD

909-558-4628dkrpalek@llu.edu

Principal Investigator:

Dragana Krpalek, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Loma Linda University

Last update posted

Feb 6, 2026

Last verified

Feb, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Loma Linda University on 2026-02-06.