Brief Postoperative Pain Management Intervention: Meaning Making Amendment

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Anxiety Acute; Pain, Acute

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness + Meaning Making Questions; Behavioral: Mindfulness + Implementation Questions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07676500

IRB_00178929 AM_00056057

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 576 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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576 participants in 2 patient groups

Meaning Making Questions

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness + Meaning Making Questions

Implementation Questions

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness + Implementation Questions