Mindful Waiting Room

Idle Waiting or Meditating: Does a Brief, Mindfulness Intervention in the Clinic Waiting Room Improve Patient Outcomes?

This will be a single-site, five-arm, parallel group randomized control trial involving patients seeking integrative healthcare. Four different styles of 5-minute, audio-recoded mindfulness practices delivered in the clinic waiting room will be compared with a 5-minute audio-recording about integrative healthcare.

A secondary sub-analysis will investigate the most effective mindfulness practice style for patients presenting at the clinic with elevated anxiety, depression, or pain.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Pain; Cancer; Fatigue; Nausea; Anxiety State; Depressive State
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Body Scan; Behavioral: Mindful Breathing; Behavioral: Mindfulness of Discomfort; Behavioral: Mindful Savoring; Behavioral: Integrative Health Recording

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 305
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Adam Hanley; Phone Number: 8012134191; Email: adam.hanley@utah.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Utah
    • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112
      • Recruiting
      • University of Utah
      • Contact: Adam W Hanley; Phone Number: 801-213-4191

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Seeking treatment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute's Wellness Center
• Adults 18+
• Facility with the English language that is adequate to complete study procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cognitive impairment preventing completion of study procedures
• An unstable illness judged by medical staff to interfere with study treatment

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

5

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Body Scan Practice	Behavioral: Body Scan; Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded body scan practice.
Experimental: Mindful Breathing Practice	Behavioral: Mindful Breathing; Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindful breathing practice.
Experimental: Mindfulness of Discomfort Practice	Behavioral: Mindfulness of Discomfort; Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindfulness of discomfort practice.
Experimental: Mindful Savoring Practice	Behavioral: Mindful Savoring; Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindful savoring practice.
Active Comparator: Integrative Health Recording	Behavioral: Integrative Health Recording; Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded description of integrative health.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Acceptability	75% of patients that begin an audio recording will listen to the full, 5-minute recording	A single 5-minute period

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Pain	Single item assessing pain ("Right now, I feel physical pain") scored on an 11-point (0=Not at all, 10=Very much) numeric rating scale. Higher scores indicate greater pain.	Immediately before to after 5-minute audio recording
Change in Anxiety	Single item assessing anxiety ("Right now, I feel nervous, anxious or on edge") scored on an 11-point (0=Not at all, 10=Very much) numeric rating scale. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety.	Immediately before to after 5-minute audio recording
Change in Depression	Single item assessing depression ("Right now, I feel down, depressed, of uninterested in life") scored on an 11-point (0=Not at all, 10=Very much) numeric rating scale. Higher scores indicate greater depression.	Immediately before to after 5-minute audio recording

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Utah

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 14, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): September 14, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 21, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 21, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): June 27, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 6, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 5, 2024
• Last Verified: February 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Depression; Fatigue
• Other Study ID Numbers: 00085446_AM_00042941

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No