App Delivered Brief Mindfulness Intervention for Surgical Patients

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Depressive State; Pain; Anxiety State

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness of Pain; Behavioral: Breath Counting; Behavioral: Mindful Breathing; Behavioral: Mindful Savoring; Behavioral: Body Scan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05433389

00085446 AM_00032203

Details and patient eligibility

About

This will be a single-site, five-arm, parallel group randomized control trial involving patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery. The investigators will compare five different styles of 5-minute, audio-recoded mindfulness practices delivered via app 7 days before to surgery, 2 days before to surgery, 2 days after surgery, and 6 days after surgery.

Enrollment: 823 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥18,
• Scheduled to undergo total joint arthroplasty of the knee or hip

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to read English
• Cognitive impairment preventing completion of study procedures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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823 participants in 5 patient groups

Breath Counting

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Breath Counting

Body Scan

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Body Scan

Mindful Breathing

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful Breathing

Mindfulness of Pain

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness of Pain

Mindful Savoring

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful Savoring