Mindfully Attending to Pain Sensations
Chronic Pain
About this trial
This is an interventional basic science trial for Chronic Pain focused on measuring pain, mindfulness, awareness, attention to variability, quality of life, wellbeing
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18+
- Suffer from chronic pain (at least six months)
- Evaluate their usual level of pain in the last week as 4 and above (on a numeric rating scale from 0-10 with 0 indicating "No Pain" and 10 indicating "Worst pain imaginable)
- Fluent in English
- Owns a smartphone
Exclusion Criteria:
- Individuals under the age of 18;
- Individuals who are not patients of our collaborating pain clinics or online chronic pain support groups and/or do not endorse their pain as chronic.
- Individuals who are pregnant
- Individuals with diagnosed cognitive impairment
- Individuals who would not be able to read text messages because of visual impairment
- Individuals with ongoing/current complications from spinal cord injury
- Individuals with active cancer
- Amputees
- Individuals with unhealed fractures
- Diabetics who do not have symptoms under control
- Individuals who have visited a doctor for a fall in the last 6 months
- Individuals with the diagnosis of schizophrenia
Sites / Locations
- Tufts Medical Center
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Harvard University
- New England Physiatry
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
Active Comparator
High Mindfulness
Low Mindfulness
Active control
All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at four different points in time, including one narrative response at T1. They will also be instructed to complete a mindfulness intervention at home and respond to diary-type text messaging questions (all including questions about pain) twice daily for six days.
All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at four different points in time, including one narrative response at T1. They will also be instructed to respond to diary-type text messaging questions (some related to pain) twice daily for six days.
All participants in this condition will complete all measures online at four different points in time, including one narrative response at T1. They will also be instructed to respond to diary-type text messaging questions (none about pain) twice daily for six days.