"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"
NCT ID NCT07813520
First seen Sep 10, 2026 · Last updated Sep 10, 2026
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.\<
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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135 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Aug 2024
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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- Ages
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18 to 26 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult medical students at the Health Sciences University Center of the University of Guadalajara * who were studying from first to third semesters were invited to participate. Exclusion Criteria: 1. students that were participating in other psychological of intervention program 2. students that did not complete all the sessions of the intervention.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Guadalajara, Health Sciences University Center
Guadalajara, Jalisco, 44340, Mexico
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