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A Single Mindfulness Meditation Session in Preoperative Anxiety : Effects on the Autonomous Nervous System

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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status

Completed

Conditions

Anxiety
Relaxation

Treatments

Other: relaxation session

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03324048
1708097
ID-RCB (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anxiety is an emotional disorder. It's a painful concern caused by uncertainty. It is a complex phenomenon misunderstood in spite of medical progress. Relaxation is a technical for reduce anxiety and is effective and safe. Previous study demonstrated the impact of session relaxation on the autonomous nervous system by the heart rate variability.

Primary objective of this new study is to demonstrate a link between heart rate variability and reduced anxiety during relaxation session.

Full description

It is monocentric, prospective and interventional study. This study will be proposed at the patients who will have an orthopedic surgery in full hospitalization. These patients are anxious because of surgery too. The day before surgery anesthetist save heart rate variability and value of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide during relaxation session.

Enrollment

33 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Affiliated or entitled to a social security
  • Have signed consent before their participation in the study
  • Aged over 18 years
  • Patients who will have an orthopedic surgery in full hospitalization
  • Patients anxious on visual analogic scale of anxiety (>5)

Exclusion criteria

  • Different disorder : disability to understand instructions, respiratory insufficiency, obesity, sleep apnea, wearing a pacemaker
  • Medical history of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

33 participants in 1 patient group

Patients anxious
Other group
Description:
Patients anxious will be perform relaxation session.
Treatment:
Other: relaxation session

Trial contacts and locations

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