NCT04089319

Acupuncture Combined With Mindfulness: ACUMIND

Acupuncture Combined With Mindfulness in the Context of Chronic Pain

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Utah · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to gather preliminary data regarding acupuncture and mindfulness in the treatment of chronic pain.

Detailed description

Neither acupuncture nor mindfulness have been studied with respect to chronic pain in an outpatient integrative health (IH) oncology clinic in the USA. Likewise, the combination of acupuncture and mindfulness combined as not been studied. Given that both acupuncture and mindfulness have demonstrated some analgesic relief in an acute pain setting, each merit study for pain relief in an outpatient setting. The investigators are evaluating the impact of two different acupuncture approaches for patients reporting chronic pain. Acupuncture will be provided by a Licensed Acupuncturist for patients reporting chronic pain. Participants will be randomized to one of two treatments - acupuncture as usual or acupuncture plus mindfulness. The investigators will collect data regarding chronic pain, interoceptive awareness, emotion regulation, and acceptability. The study is open to participants with any etiology and any location of chronic pain.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music recording	Participants will listen to music for 45 minutes while they rest with acupuncture needles in place.
OTHER	Mindfulness recording	Participants will listen to a recording of mindfulness for 15 minutes and then listen to music for 30 minutes while they rest with acupuncture needles in place.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-01
• Primary completion: 2021-05-03
• Completion: 2021-05-03
• First posted: 2019-09-13
• Last updated: 2021-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States