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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
NA
120 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2025-10-01
2029-09-01
Brief Summary
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1. What changes in self-regulation as measured through heart rate variability are observed during a mindfulness intervention and how do those self-regulatory changes affect drinking after treatment?
2. How do changes in heart rate variability affect drinking, craving, and negative affectivity in daily life?
Participants will:
1. Answer questions related to their mood and drinking behaviors.
2. Wear their sensors during an 8-week treatment period with 1 group per week.
3. Answer questions 3 times a day during the treatment period. 4.) Return their sensors via a pre-stamped package and answer questions about their mood and drinking behaviors 3- and 6-months after the mindfulness groups end.
Detailed Description
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MBRP groups will be delivered at the same time each week for 8 consecutive weeks, known as the treatment period. During the treatment period, participants will self-attach their sensors before each MBRP group, watch a brief presentation to collect resting HRV, complete their group, and watch a brief presentation after each group. During the treatment period, participants will also answer questions about their drinking, functioning, and mood 3 times a day.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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NA
SINGLE_GROUP
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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MBRP
Mindfulness based relapse prevention
Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) is a group-based treatment to provide individuals with skills intended to foster increased awareness of triggers, destructive habitual patterns, and "automatic" reactions to triggering experiences. Mindfulness practices in MBRP are designed to help individuals pause, observe present experience, and bring awareness to the range of choices available in every moment. Through MBRP individuals learn to respond in ways that serve them, rather than react in ways that are detrimental to their health and happiness.
Interventions
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Mindfulness based relapse prevention
Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) is a group-based treatment to provide individuals with skills intended to foster increased awareness of triggers, destructive habitual patterns, and "automatic" reactions to triggering experiences. Mindfulness practices in MBRP are designed to help individuals pause, observe present experience, and bring awareness to the range of choices available in every moment. Through MBRP individuals learn to respond in ways that serve them, rather than react in ways that are detrimental to their health and happiness.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
2. Meet criteria for a moderate to severe alcohol use disorder within the previous 3-months.
3. Able to attend group meetings at the time listed on the recruitment materials.
4. Willing to wear a sensor for the 8-week intervention period and return the sensor after the immediate follow-up.
5. Have a phone/tablet/computer with internet access.
6. Be able to comprehend and consent to study requirements in English.
7. Have access to a valid U.S. mailing address for receiving the HRV sensors and reside in the United States.
Exclusion Criteria
2. Have a substance use disorder requiring a higher level of care than outpatient treatment (e.g., severe alcohol use disorder requiring inpatient detoxification).
3. Have a history of pulmonary or cardiovascular disease that interferes with sensor data collection and HRV metrics (i.e., ectopic beats, arrythmia, congenital heart disease).
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
NIH
University of New Mexico
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Matison McCool
Research Assistant Professor
Principal Investigators
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Matison W McCool, Phd
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions - The University of New Mexico
Locations
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University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Countries
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Facility Contacts
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Matison W McCool, PhD
Role: primary
Other Identifiers
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2407142185
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id