NCT01748786

Online Mindfulness Training Versus Health Education for Fibromyalgia

Emotional Resilience in Fibromyalgia: A Pilot Study of Web-based Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 94 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arizona State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare an online 12-module intervention designed to improve emotion regulation and social relations via mindfulness training with a 12-module program that provides information about health behaviors to individuals with fibromyalgia. The mindfulness training program is expected to produce greater day-to-day improvements than the education condition in individuals' efficacy for coping with pain and stress, positive and negative affect, and positive engagement in social relations assessed via online diaries completed each evening during the intervention period.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Emotion Regulation	12 on-line modules provide didactic information and practice instructions re: mindfulness meditation for pain and distress
OTHER	Health Education	12 on-line modules that provide information regarding health behaviors, but no information regarding how to put behaviors into practice

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-07-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2012-12-13
• Last updated: 2016-02-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States