The Effects of Meditation and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Chronic Wounds
Effect of Meditation and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Cognition, Healing Process and Overall Well-being in Elderly Patients With Chronic Wounds
研究概览
详细说明
Each year, Community Care Access Centers (CCAC) provide long-term wound care for over 22,000 patients in Ontario, with numbers steadily increasing with the aging population. In Ontario, the cost of community care for lower leg ulcers has been estimated at over $500 million per year. This does not include the additional cost of adjunctive HBOT, which averages over $120 thousand for a standard 40 treatment course. These costs are further compounded by the psychological comorbidities that often accompany chronic disease, although these numbers are difficult to capture. Across Canada, the health burden cost of anxiety and depression alone totals over $14 billion annually, with disability costs comparable to those associated with heart disease. Furthermore, recent evidence suggests that psychological interventions are more cost-effective than drug treatment, with comparable results.
The elderly patients with chronic non-healing wounds experience a sense of powerlessness and loss of autonomy that profoundly impacts subjective wellbeing. These psychological effects in turn compromise healing, as growing evidence suggests that psychological stress impacts wound repair [1, 2]. Recent studies have shown that structured meditation programs can improve recovery from both physical and psychological disease. For example, meditation enhances immune response [3, 4] while reducing blood pressure [5], insulin resistance [6], oxidative stress [7], inflammation [8], and other risk indices. Furthermore, meditation therapy can be broadly applied with few limitations, having successfully been used in elderly [9], ill [10] and disabled [11] populations.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is an adjuvant therapy for chronic wounds. HBOT increases oxygen delivery to tissues via inhalation of 100% oxygen at high barometric pressures. HBOT has been shown to promote angiogenesis, cerebral blood and neuroplasticity in patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury and chronic pain. Furthermore, HBOT also alleviates inflammation, reduces oxidative stress, inhibits apoptosis and stimulates signaling pathways essential for wound healing.
Patients referred for HBOT assessment often have "problem wounds" that have failed prolonged courses of standard wound care. These refractory wounds may benefit from a multimodal approach that targets both the physical and psychological manifestations of chronic disease. Meditation is a simple and economical addition to HBOT that may further enhance the rate of healing by alleviating psychological stressors. Meditation encompasses a spectrum of mindfulness-based interventions that have been shown to improve mental and physical health in randomized trials. Meditation reduces stress, pain, anxiety, depression and blood pressure while improving cognition and memory performance. A variety of specialties have begun to use meditation as a cost-effective, low-stigma adjunct to standard medical and psychiatric care.
Meditation and HBOT have been independently shown to improve healing, and may have synergistic effects when applied together. This combined intervention has the potential to improve mood while enhancing the healing process, offering improved health while reducing the costs associated with chronic wounds.
研究类型
注册 (预期的)
阶段
- 不适用
联系人和位置
学习地点
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Ontario
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Toronto、Ontario、加拿大、M5G 2C4
- 招聘中
- Toronto General Hospital
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接触:
- Rita Katznelson, MD
- 电话号码:6273 416-340-4800
- 邮箱:rita.katznelson@uhn.ca
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Toronto、Ontario、加拿大、M1E 4B9
- 招聘中
- Rouge Valley Medical Centre
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接触:
- Anton Marinov, MD
- 邮箱:a.marinov@utoronto.ca
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参与标准
资格标准
适合学习的年龄
接受健康志愿者
有资格学习的性别
描述
Inclusion criteria:
- at least 3 month history of non-healing wounds, affecting lower extremities
- 55 years
Exclusion criteria:
- claustrophobia
- seizure disorder
- active asthma
- severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- history of pneumothorax
- history of severe congestive heart failure with left ventricular ejection fraction < 25%
- unstable angina
- chronic or acute otitis media or major ear drum trauma
- current treatment with bleomycin, cisplatin, doxorubicin and disulfiram
- recent relapse of depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts
学习计划
研究是如何设计的?
设计细节
- 主要用途:治疗
- 分配:随机化
- 介入模型:并行分配
- 屏蔽:单身的
武器和干预
参与者组/臂 |
干预/治疗 |
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有源比较器:Hyperbaric Oxygen
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment with 100% oxygen at 2.0 ATA for 90 min, once daily, five times a week for 8 consecutive weeks
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Meditation sessions will be combined with hyperbaric oxygen treatment
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实验性的:Meditation with Hyperbaric Oxygen
Meditation session combined with each hyperbaric oxygen treatment with 100% oxygen at 2.0 ATA for 90 min, once daily, five times a week for 8 consecutive weeks,
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Meditation sessions will be combined with hyperbaric oxygen treatment
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研究衡量的是什么?
主要结果指标
结果测量 |
大体时间 |
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Number of patients finishing the study protocol.
大体时间:1 year
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1 year
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合作者和调查者
出版物和有用的链接
一般刊物
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- Zigmond AS, Snaith RP. The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1983 Jun;67(6):361-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1983.tb09716.x.
- Gard T, Holzel BK, Lazar SW. The potential effects of meditation on age-related cognitive decline: a systematic review. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2014 Jan;1307:89-103. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12348.
- Davidson RJ, Kabat-Zinn J, Schumacher J, Rosenkranz M, Muller D, Santorelli SF, Urbanowski F, Harrington A, Bonus K, Sheridan JF. Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation. Psychosom Med. 2003 Jul-Aug;65(4):564-70. doi: 10.1097/01.psy.0000077505.67574.e3.
- Pace TW, Negi LT, Adame DD, Cole SP, Sivilli TI, Brown TD, Issa MJ, Raison CL. Effect of compassion meditation on neuroendocrine, innate immune and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2009 Jan;34(1):87-98. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.08.011. Epub 2008 Oct 4.
- Scarpina F, Tagini S. The Stroop Color and Word Test. Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 12;8:557. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00557. eCollection 2017.
- Broadbent E, Petrie KJ, Alley PG, Booth RJ. Psychological stress impairs early wound repair following surgery. Psychosom Med. 2003 Sep-Oct;65(5):865-9. doi: 10.1097/01.psy.0000088589.92699.30.
- Gouin JP, Kiecolt-Glaser JK. The impact of psychological stress on wound healing: methods and mechanisms. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2011 Feb;31(1):81-93. doi: 10.1016/j.iac.2010.09.010.
- Goldstein CM, Josephson R, Xie S, Hughes JW. Current perspectives on the use of meditation to reduce blood pressure. Int J Hypertens. 2012;2012:578397. doi: 10.1155/2012/578397. Epub 2012 Mar 5.
- Paul-Labrador M, Polk D, Dwyer JH, Velasquez I, Nidich S, Rainforth M, Schneider R, Merz CN. Effects of a randomized controlled trial of transcendental meditation on components of the metabolic syndrome in subjects with coronary heart disease. Arch Intern Med. 2006 Jun 12;166(11):1218-24. doi: 10.1001/archinte.166.11.1218.
- Mahagita C. Roles of meditation on alleviation of oxidative stress and improvement of antioxidant system. J Med Assoc Thai. 2010 Nov;93 Suppl 6:S242-54.
- Buric I, Farias M, Jong J, Mee C, Brazil IA. What Is the Molecular Signature of Mind-Body Interventions? A Systematic Review of Gene Expression Changes Induced by Meditation and Related Practices. Front Immunol. 2017 Jun 16;8:670. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00670. eCollection 2017.
- Bonadonna R. Meditation's impact on chronic illness. Holist Nurs Pract. 2003 Nov-Dec;17(6):309-19. doi: 10.1097/00004650-200311000-00006.
- Squier S. Meditation, disability, and identity. Lit Med. 2004 Spring;23(1):23-45; discussion 61-5. doi: 10.1353/lm.2004.0012. No abstract available.
- Harris C, Bates-Jensen B. et al. ,The Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT): Development of a Pictorial Guide for Training Nurses. Wound Care Canada, 2009, 7 (2): p 33-38
- Geisser ME, Clauw DJ, Strand V, Gendreau MR, Palmer R, Williams DA. Contributions of change in clinical status parameters to Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) scores among persons with fibromyalgia treated with milnacipran. Pain. 2010 May;149(2):373-378. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.02.043. Epub 2010 Mar 23.
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