NCT02222064

Pilot of Mindfulness Therapy for Inpatients With Gastro-intestinal Pain

Exploratory Study of Mindfulness for Inpatients With Chronic Gastrointestinal Pain: Does it Reduce Pain Related Distress and Increase Confidence in Pain Self-management?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: University College, London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Research questions/hypotheses 1. Can an individual mindfulness intervention for Gastro Intestinal Failure inpatients reduce pain-related distress, improve quality of life, and increase confidence in pain self-management? 2. How useful and applicable do Gastro Intestinal Failure inpatients find Mindfulness methods?

Conditions

• Gastro-intestinal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness	Mindfulness is a psychological intervention based on increasing skills of non-judgemental awareness using meditations. In this study a self-directed 8 week course of mindfulness will be used involving self-help materials in the form of a book and 8 guided meditations on audio files.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2014-08-21
• Last updated: 2015-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom