NCT04523766

Comparing the Impact of Mindful Interoceptive Mapping and Mindful Breathing on Pain and Opioid Use

Enhancing Pain Management and Preventing Opioid Misuse by Optimizing Mindfulness Based Interventions for Opioid-Treated Chronic Pain Patients: A Comparison of Mindful Interoceptive Mapping and Mindful Breathing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 149 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Utah · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a single site, two-arm, parallel group randomized clinical trial comparing the effect of two mindfulness-based interventions (Mindful Interoceptive Mapping vs. Mindfulness of the Breath) on opioid-treated chronic pain patients' pleasant/unpleasant sensation reports and opioid use.

Conditions

• Pain, Chronic
• Opioid Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness of Breath	The Mindful Breathing intervention will be adapted from a validated, brief mindfulness training model. Participants will be instructed to focus on the sensations of the breath (i.e., at the tip of the nose and in the nostrils, abdomen and back) and, if a pain arises in the body, acknowledge it without judgement and return attention to the breath.
BEHAVIORAL	Mindful Interoceptive Mapping	The MIM intervention will be adapted from the core MORE meditation practice. Participants will be instructed to (1) zoom in to deconstruct pain into its constituent affectively-valenced physical sensations and precisely map each sensation's spatial location, (2) zoom out to broaden the field of attention to include previously neglected sensory elements (i.e., spaces within the body that are absent of sensation and pleasant sensations), and (3) savor any pleasant sensations or experiences occurring during the mindfulness practice.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-29
• Primary completion: 2023-08-09
• Completion: 2023-09-18
• First posted: 2020-08-24
• Last updated: 2024-04-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States