Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Chronic Daily Headache
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Vipassana Meditation
- Registration Number
- NCT00663585
- Lead Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Brief Summary
Participants completing training in intensive meditation and continuing frequent practice for one year would experience reduced frequency, duration and severity of headaches along with improved awareness of the triggers of their symptoms, improved quality of life and mental health, improved heart rate variability, and reduced inflammation.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 36
Inclusion Criteria
- Chronic Daily Headache, defined as a headache at least 15 days of the month, of which at least 8 are migraines.
Exclusion Criteria
- Severe depression, anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis or dementia that may interfere with ability to participate in a 10 day course
- Active alcoholism on screening or use of illicit drugs within the last 3 months
- Already completed a 10 day course
- Actively involved in another form of meditation over the past 6 months
- Women who are pregnant, planning pregnancy during trial period, or lactating.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description 1 Vipassana Meditation Structured Intervention Group 2.Comparison group Vipassana Meditation Unstructured comparison group
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method number of migraine days, number of headache days 3,6,12 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method severity of headaches 3,6,12 months quality of life 3,6,12 months Heart Rate Variability 3,6,12 months
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
🇺🇸Baltimore, Maryland, United States