Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being

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Conditions studied: Chronic Daily Headache

In brief

Participants completing training in intensive meditation and continuing frequent practice for one year would experience reduced frequency, duration and severity of headaches along with improved awareness of the triggers of their symptoms, improved quality of life and mental health, improved heart rate variability, and reduced inflammation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00663585

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

36

Starts

2008-04-01

Expected to finish

2014-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-07-29

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Chronic Daily Headache, defined as a headache at least 15 days of the month, of which at least 8 are migraines.
• Exclusion Criteria:1.
• Severe depression, anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis or dementia that may interfere with ability to participate in a 10 day course
• Active alcoholism on screening or use of illicit drugs within the last 3 months
• Already completed a 10 day course
• Actively involved in another form of meditation over the past 6 months
• Women who are pregnant, planning pregnancy during trial period, or lactating.

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins School of Medicine — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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