How Does Mindfulness Meditation Buffer the Negative Effects of Pain and Suffering in the COVID-19 World? (Pain Sample)

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

373 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-10-28

Study Completion Date

2021-09-28

Brief Summary

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Both mindfulness meditation and expectancy effects are known to reduce pain intensity, pain unpleasantness and pain catastrophizing, but it is unknown whether and how expectancy effects contribute to the overall effect of mindfulness meditation on these outcomes, especially during significant global events such as the coronavirus pandemic. This study includes four interrelated aims that will probe these effects and interactions.

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Detailed Description

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As many as 1 in 4 Australians experience chronic pain. Further, it is yet unknown the effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Australians with or at risk of chronic pain. There is a critical need for the development and evaluation of fast-acting non-pharmaceutical treatments that have the capacity to target the multidimensional nature of chronic pain. This study will investigate how mindfulness meditation and common expectancy effects interact and will further characterise the mechanisms underlying these effects. Results will ultimately lead to targeted interventions that more effectively engage cognitive mechanisms associated with pain attenuation.

Conditions

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Pain, Intractable Pain, Chronic

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

4 x (2) mixed design, with training (mindfulness vs specific sham mindfulness vs general sham mindfulness vs book listening control, between subjects) and time (pre-treatment vs post-treatment, within-subjects) as factors.

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Mindfulness meditation

"focussed attention" mindfulness meditation technique taught as means to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.

Specific sham mindfulness meditation

a training session designed to specifically match the real mindfulness training while lacking the proposed active elements of mindfulness training. Delivered as a means to elicit placebo-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness

Group Type SHAM_COMPARATOR

Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.

General sham mindfulness meditation

a training session designed to generally match focussed-attention mindfulness meditation while maintaining greater distance from proposed mindfulness mechanisms. Delivered as a means to elicit placebo-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness

Group Type SHAM_COMPARATOR

Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.

Book listening control

this group completes no meditation training. They listen to a spoken excerpt from the audiobook "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne"

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)

Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* At least 18 years of age
* Recurrent pain (two or more days in the last month)
* Chronic pain (pain most days in the last three months)
* Able to read and understand English

Exclusion Criteria

* Not experiencing recurrent or chronic pain
* Incomplete or invalid data (response time \< 32 minutes, failing attention checks)
* Completing the 20-minute training module in \< 18 minutes or \> 90 minutes

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No