NCT03611764

Body Scan Activity on Bone Marrow Transplant Patients and Their Caregivers

The Mindfulness Pilot Project: The Effects of a Body Scan Activity on Bone Marrow Transplant Patients and Their Caregivers

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will address whether teaching the Body Scan exercise to cancer patients with hematological malignancies and their caregivers during an inpatient hospitalization improves reported physical and psychological symptoms after a two-week period. Giving patients and caregivers the opportunity to learn mindfulness and the tools to practice on their own is expected to lead to a decrease in stress and anxiety, and help empower patients and caregivers to better cope with stress in the future.

Conditions

• Hematological Malignancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Body Scan	-All efforts will be made to normalize their experience: for example, the desire to open their eyes, thinking about other things, wanting to move around - these are all normal and participants will be encouraged to become interested in and curious about, and to allow these natural tendencies
OTHER	Rotterdam Symptom Checklist	* 39 Likert-scale items, including physical and psychological symptoms (30 questions), daily function (8 questions), and overall valuation of life (one question) * For the 30 questions pertaining to symptoms, the four-item Likert scale ranges from 'not at all=1' to 'very much=4'; the higher the total score, the greater the score, the higher the level of distress. The single question pertaining to overall valuation of life asks participants to circle one of the seven items, ranked from "extremely poor" to "excellent"
OTHER	Practice Logs	-Describe frequency of the Zen Den

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-17
• Primary completion: 2018-08-28
• Completion: 2018-08-28
• First posted: 2018-08-02
• Last updated: 2018-10-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States