Brief Postoperative Pain Management Intervention: Meaning Making Amendment
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Mindfulness + Meaning Making Questions, Mindfulness + Implementation Questions.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Pain, Acute, Anxiety Acute. 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
- United States
- 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
Brief Postoperative Pain Management Intervention for Knee and Hip Replacement Patients: Meaning Making Amendment
Overview
This single-site, two-arm, parallel-group randomized controlled trial will enroll adults undergoing total knee or hip replacement surgery. Two days after surgery, participants will complete a brief guided mindful breathing practice delivered by text message and will then be randomized to receive either personalized meaning-making questions or implementation-focused questions. The trial will evaluate whether personalized meaning-making questions enhance the clinical effects of the mindfulness practice on acute pain, pain unpleasantness, anxiety, desire for pain medication.
Interventions
- Behavioral Mindfulness + Meaning Making Questions
Participants randomized to this arm will receive a brief, text-message-delivered mindfulness intervention two days after total knee or hip replacement surgery. The intervention consists of a 5-minute guided mindful breathing practice that begins with visually paced breathing and then transitions to audio-guided mindful awareness of the breath. Immediately afterward, participants will answer personalized meaning-making questions designed to help them reflect on what stood out during the practice - Behavioral Mindfulness + Implementation Questions
Participants randomized to this arm will receive a brief, text-message-delivered mindfulness intervention two days after total knee or hip replacement surgery. The intervention consists of a 5-minute guided mindful breathing practice that begins with visually paced breathing and then transitions to audio-guided mindful awareness of the breath. Immediately afterward, participants will answer two implementation-focused questions about how the intervention could best be delivered or used in postope
Primary outcome measures
- Change in Pain Unpleasantness [Time frame: Immediately before to after 5-minute audio recording]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Change in Pain Intensity [Time frame: Immediately before to after 5-minute audio recording]
- Change in Pain Medication Desire [Time frame: Immediately before to after 5-minute audio recording]
- Change in Anxiety [Time frame: Immediately before to after 5-minute audio recording]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age ≥18,
- Underwent joint arthroplasty of the knee or hip
Exclusion criteria
- Inability to read English
- Cognitive impairment preventing completion of study procedures
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
- Triple blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Utah — Salt Lake City
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07676500 · IRB_00178929 AM_00056057