Mindfulness Meditation Intervention Study

Preoperative Mindfulness Meditation for Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Pilot Study

The goal of this pilot study is to develop a randomized control trial study with sufficient power to definitely address if a preop mindfulness meditation intervention can improve post-total knee arthroplasty mental well-being or physical health compared to controls, and if a preop mindfulness meditation intervention can train resilience. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Is this preoperative mindfulness meditation study feasible at Hospital for Special Surgery?
2. Can we estimate a control and intervention group central tendency and variability to be used to determine sample size in future study?
3. Does a preoperative mindfulness meditation interventions improve post-total knee arthroplasty mental well-being or physical health compared to controls? Can preoperative a mindfulness meditation intervention train resilience (as measured by increased resilience score)?

Participants will be randomly assigned to be in the intervention group or the waitlist control group. The intervention group gets the mindfulness mediation intervention prior to their day of surgery, and the control group will be given the mindfulness meditation intervention 90 days after their day of surgery.

The waitlist control group allows for comparison between those who got the mindfulness meditation intervention prior to surgery and those who did not while still offering the potential benefits of the intervention after 90 days.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Feasibility; Total Knee Replacement; Mediation
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Mindfulness Meditation Intervention

Detailed Description

This study will investigate the effect of a preoperative mindfulness meditation intervention (MMI) on outcomes for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients at the Hospital for Special Surgery in a randomized controlled trial. Mindfulness meditation is a practice well-known to psychology research based on sustained attention on the present and a non-judgment of one's current situation. It has been used for numerous psychological issues including stress, anxiety, and depression. This intervention group will be compared against a waitlist control group (patients will be told they are on a waitlist to receive the mindfulness intervention, which will occur after data collection has finished for their group). This control has been utilized in several mindfulness meditation studies.

Measures of anxiety, depression, resilience, pain and pain unpleasantness, and overall physical and mental health will be taken after randomization, but before the intervention (or being told they are on the waitlist). Overall physical and mental health measures will also be taken on the day of surgery and final surveys will be collected at 90 days post-op.

The goal of this pilot study is to develop a randomized control trial study with sufficient power to definitely address if a preop mindfulness meditation intervention can improve post-total knee arthroplasty mental well-being or physical health compared to controls, and if a preop mindfulness meditation intervention can train resilience. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Is this preoperative mindfulness meditation study feasible at Hospital for Special Surgery?
2. Can we estimate a control and intervention group central tendency and variability to be used to determine sample size in future study?
3. Does a preoperative mindfulness meditation interventions improve post-total knee arthroplasty mental well-being or physical health compared to controls? Can preoperative a mindfulness meditation intervention train resilience (as measured by increased resilience score)?

Participants will be randomly assigned to be in the intervention group or the waitlist control group. The intervention group gets the mindfulness mediation intervention prior to their day of surgery, and the control group will be given the mindfulness meditation intervention 90 days after their day of surgery.

The waitlist control group allows for comparison between those who got the mindfulness meditation intervention prior to surgery and those who did not while still offering the potential benefits of the intervention after 90 days.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Angela Puglisi, BS; Phone Number: 6467146849; Email: puglisia@hss.edu
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Marko Popovic, BS; Phone Number: 6467978948; Email: popovicm@hss.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10021
      • Recruiting
      • Hospital for Special Surgery
      • Contact: Angela Puglisi, B.S.; Phone Number: 646-714-6849; Email: puglisia@hss.edu
      • Contact: Marko Popovic, B.S.; Phone Number: 6467978948; Email: popovicm@hss.edu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty with a participating surgeon
• Patients on these medications for anxiety/depression: Fluoxetine, Paroxetine, Citalopram, Escitalopram, Sertraline, Fluvoxamine, Venlafaxine, Duloxetine, Levomilnacipran, Desvenlafaxine, Bupropion, Mirtazapine, Amitriptyline, Nortriptyline, Clonazepam, Alprazolam, Lorazepam, Diazepam, Oxazepam, Chlordiazepoxide
• Patients receiving intraoperative auricular acupuncture as part of participating surgeon's preferred anesthetic care
• Patients fluent in English
• ASA I-III
• BMI < 40

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient not fluent in English (inability to understand the intervention video will likely affect ability to utilize the mindfulness techniques taught)
• Pediatric patients < 18 years of age
• Patients with contraindications to intra-op protocol
• Patients with contraindications to auricular acupuncture (non-native ear, active ear infection, gauges in the ears)
• Patients unable/unwilling to participate in the questionnaires or view the scripted intervention
• Patients scheduled for consecutive or staged surgeries
• Patients allergic to local anesthetics or study medications
• Patients who have kidney disease

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Waitlist control: Receive MMI After 90 days; The waitlist control group will allow for comparison of those who had access to the mindfulness meditation intervention (MMI) prior to surgery to those who did not. This group will be given the mindfulness meditation intervention 90 days after their surgery when all study questionnaires are complete. Up until 90-days, they will be asked the same questionnaires as the intervention group aside from the MMI practice survey and the exit survey. They will then be given the exit survey 2 weeks after receiving the MMI. This is done to ensure that both groups receive the potential benefit of the teachings and to deter patient dropout for those interested in the study because of wanting to receive the mindfulness training.	Other: Mindfulness Meditation Intervention; The mindfulness intervention is a scripted, ~12min audio recording based on core tenets of mindfulness meditation and contextualized for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty. It teaches sustained attention on the present, body awareness, acceptance of the body's current state, and transformational strategies to cope with emotional or physical stimuli as they arise. It has been created by the study team based on the teachings of Jon Kabat Zinn (founder of mindfulness meditation) and the PI's history teaching yoga and meditation. Patients will be encouraged to review the audio recording once a week.
Experimental: Intervention: Receive MMI before their day of surgery; The intervention group will be given the mindfulness meditation intervention (MMI) 1 week prior to their day of surgery. Up until 90-days, they will be asked the same questionnaires as the waitlist control group, with the addition of the MMI practice survey and the exit survey.	Other: Mindfulness Meditation Intervention; The mindfulness intervention is a scripted, ~12min audio recording based on core tenets of mindfulness meditation and contextualized for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty. It teaches sustained attention on the present, body awareness, acceptance of the body's current state, and transformational strategies to cope with emotional or physical stimuli as they arise. It has been created by the study team based on the teachings of Jon Kabat Zinn (founder of mindfulness meditation) and the PI's history teaching yoga and meditation. Patients will be encouraged to review the audio recording once a week.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall mental health score	PROMIS Mental Health Questionnaire is to assess general mental health in patients 1 week prior to surgery, post operative day 14, and post operative day 90. The responses to these questionsare excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor.	1 week prior to surgery to post operative day 90
Anxiety	Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) is used to assess severe anxiety in patients 1 Week prior to surgery, post operative day 14, and post operative day 90. The responses to these questions are not at all sure, several days, over half the days, or nearly every day.	1 week prior to surgery to post operative day 90
Depression	The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is to assess depression in patients 1 week prior to surgery, post operative day 14, and post operative day 90. The responses to these questions are not at all, Several days, more than half the days, and nearly every day.	1 week prior to surgery to post operative day 90
Overall physical health scores	PROMIS Physical Health Questionnaire is used to assess general physical health in patients 1 week prior to surgery, post operative day 14, and post operative day 90. The responses to these questions are excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor.	1 week prior to surgery to post operative day 90
Knee health	The KOOS-JR questionnaire will assess knee health after a total knee replacement surgery 1 week prior to surgery, post operative day 14, and post operative day 90. The responses to these questions are none, mild, moderate, severe, or extreme.	1 week prior to surgery to pre operative holding
MMI Practice Survey	The mindfulness meditation intervention practice survey helps to assess enrollment, retention, intervention completion and use measured by time to full enrollment, dropout number/proportion, number of MMI views/uses. The MMI practice survey is asked to the intervention group in pre-operative holding, post-operative day 14 and post-operative day 90. There are several different responses to these questions. These responses include yes or no; from 1-5+; emotional destress or physical pain; Not at all, somewhat improved, improved, or greatly improved.	pre-operative holding to post-operative day 90
Exit Survey	The exit survey is used to assess ease and helpfulness of the mindfulness meditation intervention to the patients. This is asked to the intervention group in pre-operative holding, post-operative day 14 and post-operative day 90. This survey includes several different respnses to its questions. Responses include; open ended responses; yes or no; < 1 week, 1-2 weeks, 3-4 weeks, or 4+ weeks.	pre-operative holding to post-operative day 90

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Numerical Rating Scale (NRS)	The NRS assesses pain levels on a scale from 0-10 in the operative knee 1 week prior to surgery, day of surgery, post-acute care unit (PACU), post operative day 14, and post operative day 90.	1 week prior to surgery to post operative day 90
Pain outcomes of patients	The Pain Unpleasantness scale uses verbal descriptors to asses pain at 1 week prior to surgery, day of surgery, post-acute care unit (PACU), post operative day 14, and post operative day 90. The response to this questionnaire are slightly unpleasant, slightly annoying, unpleasant, annoying, slightly, distressing, very unpleasant, distressing, very annoying, slightly intolerable, very distressing, intolerable, or very intolerable.	1 week prior to surgery to post operative day 90
Resilience training	The Brief Resilience Scale is used to assess the ability to recover from stress 1 Week prior to surgery, post operative day 14, and post operative day 90. The responses to this questionnaire are strongly agree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree.	1 week prior to surgery to post operative day 90
Patient satisfaction	The patient satisfaction survey will assess patient satisfaction with results of the total knee replacement surgery taken on post operative day 14. The responses to this questionnaire range from 0-10, 0 being strongly dissatisfied and 10 being strongly satisfied.	Post operative day 14
Pain catastrophizing scale	The pain catastrophizing scale assess pain experience and ability to cope with pain 1 week prior to surgery. The responses to this questionnaire are not at all, to a slight degree, to a moderate degree, to a great degree, or all the time.	1 week prior to surgery

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Christopher Li, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

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• Wylde V, Trela-Larsen L, Whitehouse MR, Blom AW. Preoperative psychosocial risk factors for poor outcomes at 1 and 5 years after total knee replacement. Acta Orthop. 2017 Oct;88(5):530-536. doi: 10.1080/17453674.2017.1334180. Epub 2017 May 31.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 2, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 12, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 12, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): December 22, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 28, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 26, 2024
• Last Verified: February 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2023-2131

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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