An interventional study of Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training) in Pain, Intractable and Pain, Chronic, sponsored by The University of Queensland. Completed at 1 site in Australia. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-02-17.
Sponsored by The University of Queensland · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Both mindfulness meditation and expectancy effects are known to reduce pain intensity, pain unpleasantness and pain catastrophizing, but it is unknown whether and how expectancy effects contribute to the overall effect of mindfulness meditation on these outcomes, especially during significant global events such as the coronavirus pandemic. This study includes four interrelated aims that will probe these effects and interactions.
As many as 1 in 4 Australians experience chronic pain. Further, it is yet unknown the effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Australians with or at risk of chronic pain. There is a critical need for the development and evaluation of fast-acting non-pharmaceutical treatments that have the capacity to target the multidimensional nature of chronic pain. This study will investigate how mindfulness meditation and common expectancy effects interact and will further characterise the mechanisms underlying these effects. Results will ultimately lead to targeted interventions that more effectively engage cognitive mechanisms associated with pain attenuation.
90 studies on the registry are indexed under Pain, Intractable; 16 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 373 is above the median of 60 across 64 interventional studies indexed under Pain, Intractable.
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Exclusion Criteria:
"focussed attention" mindfulness meditation technique taught as means to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness.
Other: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)
a training session designed to specifically match the real mindfulness training while lacking the proposed active elements of mindfulness training. Delivered as a means to elicit placebo-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness
Other: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)
a training session designed to generally match focussed-attention mindfulness meditation while maintaining greater distance from proposed mindfulness mechanisms. Delivered as a means to elicit placebo-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness
Other: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)
this group completes no meditation training. They listen to a spoken excerpt from the audiobook "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne"
Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.
Pain intensity
Assessed via a numerical rating scale (0=no pain, 10=most intense pain imaginable)
Time frame: 40 minutes
Pain Unpleasantness
assessed via a numerical rating scale (0=no pain, 10=most unpleasant pain imaginable)
Time frame: 40 minutes
Pain Catastrophizing
assessed via the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS; 0=no catastrophizing, 52=highest catastrophizing, 30+=clinically significant catastrophizing)
Time frame: 40 minutes
Expectancy
assessed via self-report questions (0=lowest expectancy, 10=highest expectancy)
Time frame: 40 minutes
Pain Reappraisal
assessed via the Pain-related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire (PCPQ-R; 0=lowest reappraisal, 4=highest reappraisal)
Time frame: 40 minutes
Mindful observing
assessed via the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Observing Subscale (FFMQ-O; 1=lowest observing, 5=highest observing)
Time frame: 40 minutes
Mindful non-reactivity
assessed via the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Non-reacting Subscale (FFMQ-NR; 1=lowest non-reactivity, 5=highest non-reactivity)
Time frame: 40 minutes
State Mindfulness
assessed via the State Mindfulness Survey (SMS; 1=lowest mindfulness, 21=highest mindfulness)
Time frame: 40 minutes
State Decentering
assessed via the Metacognitive Processes of Decentering - State (MpoD-s; 0=lowest decentering, 3=highest decentering)
Time frame: 40 minutes
Plan to share: Yes — All of the individual trial-related participant data collected during the trial, after de-identification.
Supporting information: Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form
Time frame: Immediately following publication up and for a further 10 years .
Access criteria: Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee. Initial contact should be directed to the contact person for scientific enquiries (Mr Jonathan Davies, jonathan.davies@uq.edu.au). Note: Requestors will need to sign a data access agreement.
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Ran from Oct 2020 to primary completion in Sep 2021, 11 months.
Of 26 interventional studies with no phase under Pain, Intractable, half reached primary completion within 24 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 20 and three quarters within 34. This study's 11 months is below that.
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