NCT06141720

Feasibility of a Mindfulness Intervention for Endometriosis Surgery

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Endometriosis is a common cause of pelvic pain in women which has been historically under-studied and under-diagnosed. The goal of this research is to pilot-test the feasibility and acceptability of a manualized, single-session brief mindfulness-based intervention (BMBI) among participants with endometriosis-related chronic pelvic pain (ECPP) who undergo surgical treatment, and gather preliminary data necessary for future studies assessing BMBI's impact on outcomes in surgically-treated ECPP. This pilot study will enroll 10-20 adult participants with ECPP to receive either a BMBI adjunctive to treatment as usual (TAU; n=5-10) or education with TAU (n=5-10) prior to their ECPP surgery. The central hypothesis is the BMBI is feasible to deliver pre-operatively, acceptable to patients, and may help improve acute post-surgical outcomes through more adaptive stress coping and pain processing, enabled by mindfulness training.

Conditions

• Endometriosis
• Pain
• Mindfulness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	pain education	Pain education
BEHAVIORAL	mindfulness of pain introduction and intervention	Brief mindfulness of pain introduction and intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-30
• Primary completion: 2026-06-30
• Completion: 2026-09-30
• First posted: 2023-11-21
• Last updated: 2025-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States