Feasibility of Mindfulness Meditation Training and Home Practice in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a 6-week app-guided Mindfulness meditation training (MM) intervention and health education (active control) condition in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) who have chronic pain and to examine the feasibility of data collection procedures

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

OTHER

mindfulness meditation(MM)

Participants will be provided with a unique invitation code that will allow them to download and use the free research version of the Mindfulness Coach app that is designed to deliver mindfulness training developed by the Veteran Affairs' National Center for PTSD.The app is tailored to users who may be skeptical about meditation practices by providing simple instructions and brief meditation exercises. The app offers written information about mindfulness as well as 12 audio-guided meditations each lasting 8-13 minutes, with an average length of 10 minutes

OTHER

Health Education (active control)

Participants will be asked to download and use the free TED Talk app.Each participant's account will include a list of over 80 TED Talks related to the six broad categories of sleep, nutrition, mood, relationships, chronic pain, and health behaviors. These talks range from 4 to 18 minutes and were reviewed/selected by the investigator team. The research coordinator(RC) will instruct them to watch or listen to these videos for ≥ 10 minutes daily for 6 days per week. The RC will ask participants to complete weekly logs of their TED Talk app use

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

  collaborator NIH

• Sam Houston State University

  collaborator OTHER

• TIRR Memorial Hermann

  collaborator OTHER

• The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Radha Korupolu, MD · The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

• Chelsea Ratcliff, PhD · Sam Houston State University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-12-06

Primary Completion

2024-07-16

Completion

2024-07-16

Countries

• United States

Study Locations