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Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being

NCT00663585 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2016-07-29

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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.

Conditions

  • Chronic Daily Headache

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Vipassana Meditation

12 day retreat where participants learn to meditate

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Madhav Goyal, MD, MPH · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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