Group-based Mindfulness for Chronic Pain in the Primary Care Setting

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Chronic Pain, Back Pain

In brief

The purpose of this pragmatic clinical trial (PCT) research is to determine whether a group-visit approach modeled on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction can improve function for persons with chronic low back pain. This will be done by an embedded PCT within the evidence-based "OPTIMUM" (Optimizing Pain Treatment In Medical settings Using Mindfulness) program.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04129450

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

451

Starts

2021-05-06

Expected to finish

2024-11-06

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥ 18
• Chronic low back pain, which is pain that persists for at least 3-months and has resulted in pain on at least half the days in the past 6 months
• A score ≥ 3 on the Pain, Enjoyment of Life and General Activity (PEG)
• Willing and able to provide online or telephone informed consent
• Speak English as the intervention manual is currently written in English

You may not qualify if…

• Do not meet the above inclusion criteria
• Red flags- recent (past month) worsening of pain, unexplained fever, unexplained weight loss
• Pregnancy
• Metastatic cancer
• First-degree relatives (parents, siblings, child) of someone who has participated or is participating in the OPTIMUM study
• Members of the same household
• Not a patient at a participating clinic or persons not planning to continue as a patient at a participating clinic for 12 or more months

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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