The Effects and Mechanisms of Brief Mindfulness Meditation and Hypnosis for Pain
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Mindfulness Meditation, Self-hypnosis, Attention Control.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Pain, Chronic Pain. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Australia
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Effects and Mechanisms of Brief Training in Mindfulness Meditation and Hypnosis for Pain Management, Relative to an Inert Control
Overview
The aim of this study is to determine the effects and mechanisms of 1 x 20-min training in mindfulness meditation and self-hypnosis relative to an inert control. Participants will be randomly assigned to condition. The dual primary outcomes will be pre- to post-training changes in current pain intensity and pain unpleasantness. The active treatments are hypothesized to produce greater reductions in pain outcomes than the control. It is also hypothesized that change in mindfulness will be a mediator specific to mindfulness meditation, while change in affect and decentering will be mediators of the hypnosis condition. Moderators of response will also be explored.
Interventions
- Behavioral Mindfulness Meditation
Participants in the mindfulness meditation condition will listen to a 20minute guided mindfulness meditation practice that holds the breath and body as the object of meditation. - Behavioral Self-hypnosis
Participants in self-hypnosis will listen to a 20-minute audio-guided hypnosis practice with an induction phase, followed by suggestions tailored towards shifts in affect and decentering, and then a re-alerting with post-hypnotic suggestions phase. - Other Attention Control
Control participants will listen to a 20-minute natural history recording which was chosen as past research has found that individuals who listen to it report this to be a neutral, but relaxing passage, and it has been used as an effective control condition in previous research.
Primary outcome measures
- Current pain intensity [Time frame: Change from pre- (Time 1; start of survey) to post-20-min training (Time 2; following completion of the one, 20-min training)]
- Current pain unpleasantness [Time frame: Change from pre- (Time 1; start of survey) to post-20-min training (Time 2; following completion of the one, 20-min training)]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Mechanism: Mindfulness [Time frame: Change from pre- (Time 1; start of survey) to post-20-min training (Time 2; following completion of the one, 20-min training)]
- Mechanism: Positive Affect [Time frame: Change from pre- (Time 1; start of survey) to post-20-min training (Time 2; following completion of the one, 20-min training)]
- Mechanism: Decentering [Time frame: Change from pre- (Time 1; start of survey) to post-20-min training (Time 2; following completion of the one, 20-min training)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Must be 18 years of age;
- Experience chronic or recurrent pain;
- Have access to a computer, phone or tablet with internet capability; and
- Be able to read and understand English.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Australia · 1 center
- The University of Queensland — Brisbane
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05323383 · 2019/HE000347