NCT02595099

Mindfulness for Osteoarthritis-related Knee Pain

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mindfulness-based Intervention for People With Osteoarthritis (OA) Related Knee Pain.

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

Summary

The purpose of this project is to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a Mindfulness based intervention for people who are attending secondary care with Osteoarthritis (OA)-related knee pain.

Detailed description

This study will explore the acceptability of a novel intervention (an 8-week programme of Mindfulness training) for people with Osteoarthritis(OA)-related knee pain. Mindfulness interventions provide intensive training in mindfulness meditation and its applications for coping with stress, illness and pain in day to day life. The aim of the intervention is not reduce the severity of pain per se, but to change how an individual responds and copes with pain. If effective, patients may report improvements in pain, sleep, quality of life and their ability to cope with pain in daily life. Before carrying out a study to determine if such an intervention is effective, it is important to explore whether it is acceptable to patients. Treatments for OA knee are usually targeted at the painful joint e.g medication, injections, physiotherapy, surgery and ultimately total knee replacement (TKR), so some patients may not expect a programme based on meditation practice to help. The investigators will recruit two groups of patients with OA-related knee pain from hospital clinics, (i) those with moderate-severe knee pain who have not yet had a TKR and (ii) those who have had a TKR who have persistent pain after one-year. All participants will complete baseline assessments before commencing an eight-week group based programme of Mindfulness training, delivered by an NHS physiotherapist who is also a trained Mindfulness teacher. Participants will have daily meditation practices to carry out at home. Follow-up questionnaires will be repeated after the intervention and again at 6 months. After the intervention, the investigators will conduct group discussions with some of the participants to explore their expectations and experiences of the intervention and the study. Participants will be in the study for approximately 8 months (from time of recruitment) and the study will last 12 months.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis
• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mindfulness training	group-based training programme, 2.5 hours delivered weekly for 8 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-20
• Primary completion: 2016-09-06
• Completion: 2016-12-30
• First posted: 2015-11-03
• Last updated: 2019-01-31