Impact of a Course on Stress Reduction

NCT ID: NCT00902863

Last Updated: 2010-05-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: TERMINATED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 5 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2010-03-31

Brief Summary

This project seeks to measure the effectiveness of a course in self-management strategies (including yoga, mindfulness, and breathing exercises). The course will be provided by a certified yoga instructor to patients being followed at the Pain Management Centre, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS).

Detailed Description

The Pain Management Centre at Hamilton Health Sciences is organizing a course in stress reduction techniques for patients with chronic pain. The Pain Centre has arranged for a local certified yoga instructor to lead a 6-week course that she has developed for our specific patient population. The course will include self-management strategies for pain control, such as breathing exercises, yoga poses, and mindfulness meditation. Standardized questionnaires and a semi-structured interview to record baseline and post-course outcomes. The study will involve the following questionnaires/surveys/interviews: 1) Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, 2) Perceived Stress Scale, 3) Burckhardt Quality of Life Scale, 4) Visual Analog Score, and 5) written questions concerning patient demographics, the patient's chronic pain condition, and their satisfaction with the course. The participants would be asked to fill out questionnaires at three different times: 1) baseline data collected within two weeks of starting course, 2) short-term outcome data within two weeks of completing course, and 3) long-term outcome data four to six months after the course.

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

YOGA patients

Patients assessed for chronic pain at our Pain Management Centre

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

YOGA

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Patients with chronic pain will undergo a six week course of YOGA

Interventions

YOGA

Patients with chronic pain will undergo a six week course of YOGA

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• patients have a history of moderate to severe chronic pain

Exclusion Criteria

• non-English speaking patients

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Hamilton Health Sciences

Principal Investigators

Lori Olivieri, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Locations

Hamilton Health Sciences

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

References

Mead K, Theadom A, Byron K, Dupont S. Pilot study of a 4-week Pain Coping Strategies (PCS) programme for the chronic pain patient. Disabil Rehabil. 2007 Feb 15;29(3):199-203. doi: 10.1080/09638280600756117.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 17364770 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

08-070

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id