NCT05433636

Mindful Waiting Room

Idle Waiting or Meditating: Does a Brief, Mindfulness Intervention in the Clinic Waiting Room Improve Patient Outcomes?

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 305 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Utah · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This will be a single-site, five-arm, parallel group randomized control trial involving patients seeking integrative healthcare. Four different styles of 5-minute, audio-recoded mindfulness practices delivered in the clinic waiting room will be compared with a 5-minute audio-recording about integrative healthcare. A secondary sub-analysis will investigate the most effective mindfulness practice style for patients presenting at the clinic with elevated anxiety, depression, or pain.

Conditions

• Anxiety State
• Depressive State
• Pain
• Nausea
• Fatigue
• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Body Scan	Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded body scan practice.
BEHAVIORAL	Mindful Breathing	Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindful breathing practice.
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness of Discomfort	Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindfulness of discomfort practice.
BEHAVIORAL	Mindful Savoring	Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindful savoring practice.
BEHAVIORAL	Integrative Health Recording	Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded description of integrative health.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-14
• Primary completion: 2024-09-14
• Completion: 2024-12-01
• First posted: 2022-06-27
• Last updated: 2024-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States