NCT02131857

The Effectiveness of a Systemic Mindfulness-based Intervention Program in a Cystic Fibrosis Clinic

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rabin Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Hypothesis 1: Mindfulness is a feasible tool for use within a cystic fibrosis (CF) clinic Hypothesis 2: Participants in the mindfulness intervention will show an increased level of quality of life post intervention with the Mindfulness course Hypothesis 3. Levels of mindfulness: Participants in the mindfulness intervention will report increased mindfulness levels post-program completion as compared to pre-program completion Hypothesis 4. Levels of stress: Participants in the mindfulness intervention will report lower levels of stress post-program completion as compared with pre-program commencement. Hypothesis 5. Levels of residual depressive symptoms post-mindfulness intervention program: Residual symptoms of depression are a risk factor for relapse of depression. Post -program participants of mindfulness will purport fewer residual depressive symptoms compared with pre-program. Hypothesis 6. CF is associated with severe neutrophilic inflammation of the airways. As mindfulness intervention has been shown to modulate immune system it may improve physical aspects of CF including markers of inflammation and markers of lung disease (lung function tests and rate of pulmonary exacerbations) and nutritional state.

Detailed description

The study will be an active interventional program for approximately six months in duration. All participants will initially undergo an initial assessment interview. Personnel trained and certified in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) will run mindfulness-based groups in 6-8 weekly 1 1/2 hour sessions (the staff group will comprise of 6 sessions and the parents' and patients' groups will be 8 sessions long). Participants will learn and engage in various formal and informal meditation practices during experiential learning of skills, including concentration, mindfulness of thoughts, emotions, feelings and bodily sensations, decentering, and letting go. Each group will include both practical exercises and a psycho-educational component. Daily homework, an essential aspect of the course, will include meditation practices together with exercises designed to integrate application of awareness skills into daily life. On day 0, participants will complete a battery of questionnaires as well as tests of the physical status of CF disease. This battery will be repeated at 8 weeks, and again at 6 months.

Conditions

• Cystic Fibrosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	active interventional program based on Mindfulness training	active interventional program based on Mindfulness training

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2014-05-06
• Last updated: 2014-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel