Examining the Impact of Mindfulness on Patients' Experience of Osteopathic Manipulation

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain; Satisfaction, Patient

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness Meditation; Behavioral: History of Osteopathy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04477278

IRB_00116896

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a single site, two-arm, parallel group pilot randomized controlled trial examining the effect of coupling a brief mindfulness-based intervention with an osteopathic manipulation session for pain patients.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients scheduled for OMT at the Huntsman Cancer Institute

Exclusion criteria

• Altered mental status due to delirium, psychosis, or medication sedation as determined by treating clinician.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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39 participants in 2 patient groups

Audio-Guided Mindfulness Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Brief, 8-minute, audio-guided mindfulness intervention delivered prior to osteopathic manipulation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Meditation

History of Osteopathy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Brief, 8-minute, audio-guided history of osteopathy delivered prior to osteopathic manipulation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: History of Osteopathy