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Clinical Trials/NCT03911375
NCT03911375
Completed
N/A

Stress Reduction Program Based on Mindfulness for Patients With Discopathies

Fundación Eduardo Anitua3 sites in 1 country96 target enrollmentApril 3, 2019
ConditionsBack Pain

Overview

Phase
N/A
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Back Pain
Sponsor
Fundación Eduardo Anitua
Enrollment
96
Locations
3
Primary Endpoint
Stress change
Status
Completed
Last Updated
3 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the influence of stress on inflammation and the symptomatology of the patient with back pain. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) will be used in half of participants, a validated psychopedagogical intervention for stress reduction, and the participants assigned to the control group will follow the usual treatment, according to their diagnosis.

Detailed Description

The Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) is a psycho-educational program of stress reduction based on mindfulness. It consists of a program of 30 hours of duration divided into 9 sessions with a weekly frequency of 2.5 h and an intensive session between the week 6 and 7 of the program with a duration of 7.5 hours. Each week, the theoretical contents that are necessary to understand the attention development practices will be covered. In addition, basic concepts of the psychobiology and psychology of stress and pain will be explained. The subjects will have a homework load of approximately 45 minutes per day during the intervention program.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
April 3, 2019
End Date
March 30, 2020
Last Updated
3 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Parallel
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Fundación Eduardo Anitua
Responsible Party
Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • To be diagnosed with symptomatic disc disease (Participants must provide a medical report that certifies the discopathy).
  • Normal or moderate mobility
  • Normal cognitive state
  • Patients who have previously read and signed the informed consent.
  • Patients that are capable and willing to comply with the study procedures.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Serious psychopathologies
  • Suicidal thoughts.
  • Deep depression
  • Psychosis
  • Drug addiction
  • Very limited functional capacity and cognitive impairment: Patientsconfined in a bed or a chair. They need the help of a third person.
  • Do not incorporate during the program any clinical, psychological or pharmacological treatments different from those ones that are normally used to controlled the pain, or any drastic changes in lifestyle.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Stress change

Time Frame: Baseline and Six months

Measured with the variation of cortisol in blood. These samples are obtained from a blood test that will be done to the participants before and after starting the experimental and control programs.

Variation of the nocturnal apnea index.

Time Frame: Baseline and Six months

Sleep and breathing analysis: The performance of the sleep and breathing registration tests will be carried out in the patient's home. The sleep study will be done with a validated respiratory polygraphy (BTI-APNiA®). The sleep analysis will be controlled by a sleep technician and supervised by a sleep medicine specialist. The sleep analysis will be done to the participants before and after starting the experimental and control programs.

Variation of cytokines

Time Frame: Baseline and Six months

((TNF) -α and interleukin (IL) -1β, IL-6 and IL17), as an approximate biomarker of inflammation. Bio-chemical markers of the discopathy: Cytokines ((TNF) -α, interleukin (IL) -1β, IL-6 and IL-17). These samples are obtained from a blood test that will be done to the participants before and after starting the experimental and control programs.

Secondary Outcomes

  • Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Self-Compassion Scale (SCS)(Baseline and Six months)
  • DASS-21(Baseline and Six months)
  • Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Pain Coping Inventory (PC)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire-Revised (CPAQ-R)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Satisfaction with Life questionnaire (SWLS)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Survey of Pain Attitudes - Brief (SOPA-B)(Baseline and Six months)
  • WHO-5 Well Being Index(Baseline and Six months)
  • Pain Catastrophising Scale (PCS)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Pain and Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS; 90)(Baseline and Six months)
  • Short Form-36 Bodily Pain Scale (SF-36 BPS)(Baseline and Six months)

Study Sites (3)

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