The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation in Veterans With Epilepsy
NCT ID: NCT03589755
Last Updated: 2020-09-03
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Basic Information
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WITHDRAWN
NA
INTERVENTIONAL
2019-02-08
2020-09-30
Brief Summary
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This study proposes a randomized, single-blinded pilot investigative trial to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation. The measures outcomes include seizure frequency, number of ER visits, quality of life, depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep quality and alcohol use in patients with Epilepsy. The cohort group will be randomized in two groups, one is the group of patients getting mindful meditation weekly during 8 weeks compared to patients in the waiting list who have the desire to participate.
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Detailed Description
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Participating physicians will recruit patients meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria who have been diagnosed and treated in the epilepsy clinic at the Miami Veteran hospital. Upon completion of screening and enrolment procedures study participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups using a randomized call-in system: Treatment with weekly sessions of mindfulness meditation for 8 weeks or placement in the waiting list.
Demographics will be obtained for both groups during the initial clinic visit. The epilepsy variable questionnaire will also be completed during the initial appointment in the epilepsy clinic (this will assess seizure frequency, number of ER visits 3 months prior, adherence to antiepileptic medications reviewing the electronic pharmacy log with dates of medication being dispensed at the Veteran Medical Center.
All patients will be scheduled to have an initial appointment with the clinical psychologist to fill out the complete a battery of questionnaires including: Quality of life inventory in epilepsy (QOLIE-31), alcohol use disorder identification test (AUDIT), Beck depression inventory (BDI-II), Beck anxiety inventory (BAI), drug abuse screening test (dast-10), Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Insomnia severity, patient health questionnaires (PHQ), Post traumatic
The patients who do not initially receive mindfulness meditation will continue to receive standard of care and will be placed in a second phase of randomization where they will have a chance to once again be randomized to one of the groups.
This process will continue until a total of at least 40 patients has been recruited. After the recruitment has been completed, the remainder of the patients will be given the opportunity to participate in mindfulness medication if they so desire.
The hypothesis is that mindfulness meditation group will have more favorable outcomes than patients in the waitlist group in terms of the primary outcome of reduction in seizure frequency and secondary outcomes including number of ER visits, improvement in quality of life, decreasing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD, improvement in sleep quality, and decreased alcohol use.
Physicians will be blinded to which group patients are assigned during data collection. All of the participants will have a weekly clinic note titled Psychology Note in the clinic MIA MH PSYCHOL MINDFUL GRP. The notes will document the session if patient is in the mindfulness meditation group or will document that the patient remains on the waiting list. The physicians will not access these notes and will remain blinded to the patient assignment and upon completion of the study the data will be de-identified and analyzed by the statistician.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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mindful meditation
Behavioral intervention, providing meditation
Mindfulness meditation
The intervention consist of a weekly session of mindfulness meditation provided by a clinical psychologist trained in this area. She will provide weekly session to a group of 10 patients at a time for a total of 8 weeks. Upon completing the course, the other 10 people will start
Waiting list
Patient on a waiting list
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Mindfulness meditation
The intervention consist of a weekly session of mindfulness meditation provided by a clinical psychologist trained in this area. She will provide weekly session to a group of 10 patients at a time for a total of 8 weeks. Upon completing the course, the other 10 people will start
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
2. Adults over the age of 18
3. Willingness to participate in mindfulness meditation sessions weekly for 8 weeks
4. Being able to read at a 6th grade level.
5. Being able to understand the study, consent form, and guided instructions during mindfulness meditation.
Exclusion Criteria
2. Having a diagnosis of major neurocognitive disorder previously known as dementia which would make the patient unable to follow guided instructions during mindfulness meditation.
18 Years
90 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Miami VA Healthcare System
FED
Responsible Party
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Maria Raquel Lopez
Primary Investigator
Principal Investigators
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Maria R Lopez, M.D
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Miami Veteran Affairs hospital
Locations
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miami VAMC
Miami, Florida, United States
Countries
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References
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Hauser WA, Annegers JF, Rocca WA. Descriptive epidemiology of epilepsy: contributions of population-based studies from Rochester, Minnesota. Mayo Clin Proc. 1996 Jun;71(6):576-86. doi: 10.4065/71.6.576.
Arias AJ, Steinberg K, Banga A, Trestman RL. Systematic review of the efficacy of meditation techniques as treatments for medical illness. J Altern Complement Med. 2006 Oct;12(8):817-32. doi: 10.1089/acm.2006.12.817.
Vezzani A, Lang B, Aronica E. Immunity and Inflammation in Epilepsy. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2015 Dec 18;6(2):a022699. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a022699.
Pascoe MC, Thompson DR, Jenkins ZM, Ski CF. Mindfulness mediates the physiological markers of stress: Systematic review and meta-analysis. J Psychiatr Res. 2017 Dec;95:156-178. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.08.004. Epub 2017 Aug 23.
Walker ER, Obolensky N, Dini S, Thompson NJ. Formative and process evaluations of a cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness intervention for people with epilepsy and depression. Epilepsy Behav. 2010 Nov;19(3):239-46. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.07.032. Epub 2010 Sep 15.
Acevedo BP, Pospos S, Lavretsky H. The Neural Mechanisms of Meditative Practices: Novel Approaches for Healthy Aging. Curr Behav Neurosci Rep. 2016;3(4):328-339. doi: 10.1007/s40473-016-0098-x. Epub 2016 Oct 18.
Moyer CA, Donnelly MP, Anderson JC, Valek KC, Huckaby SJ, Wiederholt DA, Doty RL, Rehlinger AS, Rice BL. Frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry associated with positive emotion is produced by very brief meditation training. Psychol Sci. 2011 Oct;22(10):1277-9. doi: 10.1177/0956797611418985. Epub 2011 Sep 15. No abstract available.
Tang YY, Lu Q, Feng H, Tang R, Posner MI. Short-term meditation increases blood flow in anterior cingulate cortex and insula. Front Psychol. 2015 Feb 26;6:212. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00212. eCollection 2015.
Guidelines for epidemiologic studies on epilepsy. Commission on Epidemiology and Prognosis, International League Against Epilepsy. Epilepsia. 1993 Jul-Aug;34(4):592-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1993.tb00433.x. No abstract available.
Other Identifiers
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1158499-1
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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