Brief Mindfulness Intervention for Patients at a Free Acute Care Clinic

Florida State University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindful Pain Management; Behavioral: Pain Coping Information

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07025161

STUDY00004916 Shepherd's Hope

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a single-site, two-arm, parallel-group randomized clinical trial (RCT). The clinical effects of a 4-minute audio-recorded mindfulness intervention for 100 English-speaking patients and 100 Spanish-speaking patients at a free acute care clinic will be investigated relative to a 4-minute audio-recoding about pain psychoeducation.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥18
• Seeking treatment at the Shepherd's Hope Downtown Clinic

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive impairment preventing completion of study procedures.
• Other unstable illness judged by medical staff to interfere with study involvement.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Pain Coping Information

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will be randomized to listen to a 4-minute audio recording providing common pain coping techniques (e.g., ice, rest, medication, surgery).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pain Coping Information

Mindful Pain Management

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be randomized to listen to a 4-minute audio recording consisting of a 1-minute introduction to mindfulness followed by a 1-minute and 30-second mindful breathing practice and a 1-minute and 30-second mindfulness of pain practice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindful Pain Management