How Does Mindfulness Meditation Buffer the Negative Effects of Pain and Suffering in the COVID-19 World? (Pain Sample)
Pain, Intractable, Pain, Chronic
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Pain, Intractable
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- At least 18 years of age
- Recurrent pain (two or more days in the last month)
- Chronic pain (pain most days in the last three months)
- Able to read and understand English
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not experiencing recurrent or chronic pain
- Incomplete or invalid data (response time < 32 minutes, failing attention checks)
- Completing the 20-minute training module in < 18 minutes or > 90 minutes
Sites / Locations
- Health and Behavioural Sciences
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Sham Comparator
Sham Comparator
No Intervention
Mindfulness meditation
Specific sham mindfulness meditation
General sham mindfulness meditation
Book listening control
"focussed attention" mindfulness meditation technique taught as means to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness.
a training session designed to specifically match the real mindfulness training while lacking the proposed active elements of mindfulness training. Delivered as a means to elicit placebo-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness
a training session designed to generally match focussed-attention mindfulness meditation while maintaining greater distance from proposed mindfulness mechanisms. Delivered as a means to elicit placebo-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness
this group completes no meditation training. They listen to a spoken excerpt from the audiobook "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne"