Feasibility of Mindfulness Meditation Training and Home Practice in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Spinal Cord Injuries
In brief
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a 6-week app-guided Mindfulness meditation training (MM) intervention and health education (active control) condition in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) who have chronic pain and to examine the feasibility of data collection procedures
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05556057
- Run by
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
- People needed
- 65
- Starts
- 2022-12-06
- Expected to finish
- 2024-07-16
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-08-14
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Traumatic SCI of at least 6 months duration
- Chronic pain [defined as pain lasting at least 3 months with a pain intensity rating of 4 or higher on a 10-point visual analog scale]
- Understand spoken and written English sufficiently to provide informed consent
- participate in the intervention and complete study surveys
You may not qualify if…
- Lack of daily access to the internet using a smart phone or smart tablet
- Cognitive impairment (determined by their inability to demonstrate comprehension of informed consent by correctly answering 4 out of 5 questions pertaining to the study)
- Significant visual/hearing impairment that does not allow use of the MM app's audiovisual presentations or health education presentations on Ted-talk
- Use of any kind of meditation more than once a week in the last 3 months
- Inability to provide or obtain an email address for communication with study staff
- Inability to operate the app download or study related survey using a smartphone.
Where it is running
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston — Houston, Texas, United States
- TIRR Memorial Hermann — Houston, Texas, United States
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