Does Mindfulness-based meditation improve the psychosocial well-being among patients with chronic pain conditions? a pilot study from Chennai

Autor:	Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, S Suthanthira Kannan, Nithya S Pradeep
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Mindfulness business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Chronic pain medicine.disease Paired samples Management of Technology and Innovation Well-being medicine Physical therapy Comparison study Meditation Brief Pain Inventory business Psychosocial media_common
Zdroj:	Current Medical Issues. 18:120
ISSN:	0973-4651
DOI:	10.4103/cmi.cmi_14_20
Popis:	Background: Mindfulness-based meditation has been shown to reduce stress and even reduce pain in chronic pain conditions. Objective: To study the effect of mindfulness-based meditation on pain and psychosocial wellbeing among patients living with chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions. Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post comparison study among 15 patients suffering from various musculoskeletal chronic pain conditions to assess the impact of mindfulness-based meditation on chronic pain. The participants were given an audio recording which gives specific instructions about the method of practicing the mindfulness-based meditation for a period of 2 weeks. The Brief Pain Inventory was used to measure pain and associated psycho-social wellbeing at baseline and after two weeks of the practice of meditation. The scores on the inventory were compared before and after the meditation using the paired sample t test. Results: There was a statistically significant reduction in the overall Brief Pain Inventory score of 11.6 units (95% CI= 8.2 to 15.0; P
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