NCT04786405

Mindfulness Meditation Versus Clinical Hypnosis for Acute, Experimental Pain

An Experimental, Randomized Trial Comparing Mindfulness Meditation Versus Clinical Hypnosis for Acute Pain: a Test of Effects and Mechanisms

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Queensland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This trial aims to determine the effects and mechanisms (mediators and moderators) of brief training in mindfulness meditation versus clinical hypnosis on acute, experimental pain.

Detailed description

Participants (N=200 with complete data) will be healthy undergraduate students or community-based individuals. An experimental, randomised trial will be implemented, with participants randomly assigned to either five daily, 20-minute mindfulness meditation sessions or clinical hypnosis sessions. Repeated measures and experimental pain manipulation will be implemented. Aim 1 is to examine the effects of these two treatments on experimental pain outcomes. Aim 2 is to examine the moderators of these effects. Aim 3 is to determine the mediators underlying improved experimental pain outcomes. Results will refine theory and will inform the future streamlining of treatments to target those mechanisms shown to be of most critical importance.

Conditions

• Mindfulness Meditation
• Clinical Hypnosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness meditation	Participants in the mindfulness meditation condition will practice a breath and body focused meditation.
BEHAVIORAL	Clinical hypnosis	Participants in clinical hypnosis will be guided in a hypnosis practice with suggestions tailored towards shifting pain appraisals.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-15
• Primary completion: 2023-11-29
• Completion: 2023-11-29
• First posted: 2021-03-08
• Last updated: 2023-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia