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- Clinical Trial NCT04151121
Mindfulness in Chest Pain - a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Study (MIPIC)
Mindfulness Based Intervention in Patients With Persistent Pain in Chest (MIPIC) of Non-Cardiac Cause - a Feasibility Randomised Control Study
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Chest pain is a common condition in primary care with the lifetime prevalence of no cardiac cause (NCCP) being 20-33 percent compared to 6-7 percent for cardiac chest pain. The latter patients obtain appropriate medical and interventional treatment but those with NCCP are often left with persistent symptoms, psychological distress, impaired quality of life, high unemployment, work absenteeism, and high use of healthcare resources. They are often treated with analgesics, proton-pump inhibitors, anxiolytics, but generally with little benefit.
Mindfulness has grown in popularity in the last 2-3 decades as an accepted form of behavior therapy for the treatment of stress and depression. Several RCTs have been performed in patients with chronic pain, but none specific to chest pain. They have been heterogeneous in nature with low-quality evidence for improvement of pain with mindfulness. There is thus a requirement for larger, well-designed and rigorous RCTs in patients with chronic pain, including those with NCCP.
With this feasibility RCT study, the investigators would like to obtain more information about some uncertainties that would allow them to conduct a larger, well-designed RCT. The investigators plan to recruit 50 participants from all those who have attended the chest pain clinic in the previous 12-months and randomize them in a simple 1:1 manner into receiving Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) therapy (intervention arm) or usual treatment by their general practitioner (control arm). The participants will undergo a basic clinical assessment with symptoms, heart-rate, blood pressure, height, body weight, cardiovascular risk factors. They will be required to complete different questionnaires to assess their chest pain limitation and frequency, general and cardiac-specific anxiety, mindfulness, quality of life, and health-related resource utilization at baseline and after completion of MBCT or usual treatment.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Middlesex
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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom, UB9 6JH
- Harefield Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Attendance to the chest pain clinic within the last 12 months and no cardiac cause for chest pain were identified.
- Have persistent chest pain symptoms on or after usual treatment
- Ability to carry out the 8-week mindfulness course and required home practice.
- Able to understand verbal and written English.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Acute presentation with ECG changes and/ or raised enzymes at any time prior to enrolment.
- Known history of coronary artery disease.
- Under active psychiatric care or waiting for a psychological assessment or have received a prescription of a new psychoactive drug within the previous 3 months.
- Undergoing any other form of counselling or behaviour therapy.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention
The participants will receive MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) as 2-hourly sessions over 8-weeks including a 6-hour session at the end of 6th week.
The MBCT will be adapted for chest pain.
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MBCT is recognized behavior therapy for patients with recurrent depression.
The program will be adapted for patients with chest pain.
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No Intervention: Control group
These participants will continue to receive any treatment (or no treatment) by their primary care physicians.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Willingness to participate in mindfulness-based behaviour therapy
Time Frame: 8 months
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To assess the number of patients with persistent chest pain without a heart condition who would be willing (and consent) to participate in mindfulness-based behaviour therapy
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8 months
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Compliance with mindfulness-based behavior therapy
Time Frame: 8 months
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To assess compliance with the mindfulness program by participation in the 8-week sessions and home practice.
Each participant will be given a worksheet to complete for home practice and their experience.
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8 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Persistent chest pain
Time Frame: 8-months
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To assess the number of patients diagnosed as non-cardiac chest pain who have persistent chest pain.
This will be ascertained during the initial phone call by the research team.
It will be further assessed in terms of physical limitation and frequency by the Seattle Angina Questionnaire at baseline and at follow-up.
However, as this is a feasibility study, it is not powered to demonstrate statistically significant changes.
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8-months
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Prevalence of general anxiety and depression
Time Frame: 8- months
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To assess the prevalence of general anxiety and depression by means of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale questionnaire at baseline and at follow-up.
However, as this is a feasibility study, it is not powered to demonstrate statistically significant changes.
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8- months
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Prevalence of cardiac anxiety
Time Frame: 8 months
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To assess the prevalence of heart-focussed anxiety with Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire (CAQ) at baseline and follow-up.
However, as this is a feasibility study, it is not powered to demonstrate statistically significant changes.
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8 months
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State of mindfulness
Time Frame: 8-months
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Each participant's state of mindfulness will be assessed using Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire at baseline and follow-up.
However, as this is a feasibility study, it is not powered to demonstrate statistically significant changes.
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8-months
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Generic health related quality of life
Time Frame: 8-months
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Each participant's quality of life, including limitations in bodily and mental functioning associated with persistent chest pain, will be assessed by means of EuroQuol-5 questionnaire.
However, as this is a feasibility study, it is not powered to demonstrate statistically significant changes.
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8-months
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Health resource utilization
Time Frame: 8-months
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The study will evaluate the utilization of health resources in terms of the number of visits to the hospital (as in-patient or out-patient) and primary care using Adult Service Use Schedule (AD-SUS) at baseline and follow-up.
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8-months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Tarun K Mittal, MD, FRCR, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Ludwig DS, Kabat-Zinn J. Mindfulness in medicine. JAMA. 2008 Sep 17;300(11):1350-2. doi: 10.1001/jama.300.11.1350. No abstract available.
- Kabat-Zinn J. An outpatient program in behavioral medicine for chronic pain patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation: theoretical considerations and preliminary results. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 1982 Apr;4(1):33-47. doi: 10.1016/0163-8343(82)90026-3.
- Kuyken W, Warren FC, Taylor RS, Whalley B, Crane C, Bondolfi G, Hayes R, Huijbers M, Ma H, Schweizer S, Segal Z, Speckens A, Teasdale JD, Van Heeringen K, Williams M, Byford S, Byng R, Dalgleish T. Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis From Randomized Trials. JAMA Psychiatry. 2016 Jun 1;73(6):565-74. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.0076.
- Hoorweg BB, Willemsen RT, Cleef LE, Boogaerts T, Buntinx F, Glatz JF, Dinant GJ. Frequency of chest pain in primary care, diagnostic tests performed and final diagnoses. Heart. 2017 Nov;103(21):1727-1732. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2016-310905. Epub 2017 Jun 20.
- Tyrer P, Tyrer H, Morriss R, Crawford M, Cooper S, Yang M, Guo B, Mulder RT, Kemp S, Barrett B. Clinical and cost-effectiveness of adapted cognitive behaviour therapy for non-cardiac chest pain: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Open Heart. 2017 May 16;4(1):e000582. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2016-000582. eCollection 2017.
- Mittal TK, Pottle A, Nicol E, Barbir M, Ariff B, Mirsadraee S, Dubowitz M, Gorog DA, Clifford P, Firoozan S, Smith R, Dubrey S, Chana H, Shah J, Stephens N, Travill C, Kelion A, Pakkal M, Timmis A. Prevalence of obstructive coronary artery disease and prognosis in patients with stable symptoms and a zero-coronary calcium score. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2017 May 1;18(8):922-929. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jex037.
- Chambers JB, Marks EM, Hunter MS. The head says yes but the heart says no: what is non-cardiac chest pain and how is it managed? Heart. 2015 Aug;101(15):1240-9. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-306277. Epub 2015 Apr 16. No abstract available.
- Kisely SR, Campbell LA, Yelland MJ, Paydar A. Psychological interventions for symptomatic management of non-specific chest pain in patients with normal coronary anatomy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015 Jun 30;2015(6):CD004101. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004101.pub5.
- Robertson N, Javed N, Samani NJ, Khunti K. Psychological morbidity and illness appraisals of patients with cardiac and non-cardiac chest pain attending a rapid access chest pain clinic: a longitudinal cohort study. Heart. 2008 Mar;94(3):e12. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2006.100537. Epub 2007 May 31.
- Mittal TK, Evans E, Pottle A, Lambropoulos C, Morris C, Surawy C, Chuter A, Cox F, de Silva R, Mason M, Banya W, Thakrar D, Tyrer P. Mindfulness-based intervention in patients with persistent pain in chest (MIPIC) of non-cardiac cause: a feasibility randomised control study. Open Heart. 2022 May;9(1):e001970. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2022-001970.
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