How Does Mindfulness Meditation Buffer the Negative Effects of Pain and Suffering in the COVID-19 World? (Healthy Sample)

January 10, 2022 updated by: The University of Queensland

Online RCT Comparing the Effects of Mindfulness, Sham Mindfulness and Book Listening Control on Coronavirus-related Catastrophizing in Adults

Both mindfulness meditation and expectancy effects are known to reduce anxiety, stress and catastrophizing, but it is unknown whether and how expectancy effects contribute to the overall effect of mindfulness meditation on these outcomes, especially during significant global events such as the coronavirus pandemic. This study includes four interrelated aims that will probe these effects and interactions.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Completed

Conditions

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Study Type

Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

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744

Phase

Phase

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  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • Australia
    • Queensland
      • Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4072
        • Health and Behavioural Sciences

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • At least 18 years of age
  • Able to read and understand English

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Recurrent pain (two or more days in the last month)
  • Chronic pain (pain most days in the last three months)
  • Incomplete or invalid data (response time < 32 minutes, failing attention checks)
  • Completing the 20-minute training module in < 18 minutes or > 90 minutes

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Quadruple

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
No Intervention: Book listening control
this group completes no meditation training. They listen to a spoken excerpt from the audiobook "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne"
Experimental: Mindfulness meditation
"focussed attention" mindfulness meditation technique taught as means to reduce coronavirus-related catastrophizing.
Other: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)
Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.
Sham Comparator: Specific sham mindfulness meditation
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 expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing.
Other: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)
Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.
Sham Comparator: General sham mindfulness meditation
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 expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing.
Other: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)
Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Coronavirus-related catastrophizing
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via a covid-19-related catastrophizing scale (CCS; 0=no catastrophizing, 52=highest catastrophizing, 30+=clinically significant catastrophizing)
40 minutes

Other Outcome Measures

Other Outcome Measures

For clinical trials, a planned measurement described in the protocol that is used to determine the effect of an intervention/treatment on participants. For observational studies, a measurement or observation that is used to describe patterns of diseases or traits, or associations with exposures, risk factors, or treatment. Types of outcome measures include primary outcome measure and secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Expectancy
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via self-report questions (0=lowest expectancy, 10=highest expectancy)
40 minutes
State Mindfulness
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via the State Mindfulness Survey (SMS; 1=lowest mindfulness, 21=highest mindfulness)
40 minutes
State Decentering
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via the Metacognitive Processes of Decentering - State (MpoD-s; 0=lowest decentering, 3=highest decentering)
40 minutes
Reappraisal
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ-R; 4=lowest reappraisal, 20=highest reappraisal)
40 minutes
Mindful observing
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Observing subscale (FFMQ-O; 1=lowest observing, 5=highest observing)
40 minutes
Mindful non-reactivity
Time Frame: 40 minutes
assessed via the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Non-reacting subscale (FFMQ-NR; 1=lowest non-reactivity, 5=highest non-reactivity)
40 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Sponsor

The organization or person who initiates the study and who has authority and control over the study.
The University of Queensland

Collaborators

Collaborators

An organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This support may include activities related to funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.
University of California, San Diego
University of Sydney

Investigators

Investigators

A researcher involved in a clinical study. Related terms include site principal investigator, site sub-investigator, study chair, study director, and study principal investigator.
  • Principal Investigator: Melissa Day, PhD, The University of Queensland

Publications and helpful links

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Helpful Links

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

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October 28, 2020

Primary Completion (Actual)

Primary Completion

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September 26, 2021

Study Completion (Actual)

Study Completion

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September 26, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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October 19, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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October 22, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

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October 26, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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January 11, 2022

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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January 10, 2022

Last Verified

Last Verified

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January 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

Identifiers or ID numbers other than the NCT number that are assigned to a clinical study by the study's sponsor, funders, or others. These numbers may include unique identifiers from other trial registries and National Institutes of Health grant numbers.
  • 2019000347-S4C

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

All of the individual trial-related participant data collected during the trial, after de-identification.

IPD Sharing Time Frame

Immediately following publication up and for a further 10 years .

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee. Initial contact should be directed to the contact person for scientific enquiries (Mr Jonathan Davies, jonathan.davies@uq.edu.au).

Note: Requestors will need to sign a data access agreement.

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • SAP
  • ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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