COPAHS Study: protocol of a randomised experimental study comparing the effects of hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, and spiritual practices on experimental pain in healthy adults
Autor: | Mark P. Jensen, Alexandra Ferreira-Valente, José Luís Pais-Ribeiro, Melissa A. Day, Filipa Pimenta, Rui Miguel Costa |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Hypnosis Pain tolerance Psychological intervention Pain 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intervention (counseling) medicine Heart rate variability Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic clinical trials business.industry Cold pressor test rehabilitation medicine General Medicine Clinical trial Natural history Meditation pain management Physical therapy Medicine Complementary Medicine business Mindfulness 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | BMJ Open BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2021) Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
ISSN: | 2044-6055 |
Popis: | BackgroundThere has been an increasing interest in studying the potential benefits of so-called complementary and alternative approaches for pain management, such as hypnosis and mindfulness-based interventions. More recently, researchers have been interested in studying the effects of spiritual practices on pain experience as well. These practices may increase pain tolerance, result in a positive re-appraisal of pain and influence other psychological variables that are known to be associated with pain experience. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the immediate effects of self-hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, and a spiritual intervention relative to a control condition for increasing pain tolerance and reducing pain intensity and pain-related stress, in response to experimental painful stimulation.Methods and analysisRecruitment is anticipated to start in November 2020. This is a randomised quantitative experimental mixed-design repeated-measures study with three assessment points: baseline (T0), pre-test (T1) and post-test (T2). Eligible healthy adults will be randomised to one of the four study conditions. Interventions will be a 20-minute audio-guided practice of either self-hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, or Christian prayer. Participants in the control group will not be instructed to use any specific strategy during the painful stimulation. Participants will be submitted to a first cycle of Cold Pressor Arm Wrap. They will then listen to a 20-minute audio recording inducing one of the three interventions, or, in the case of the control group, to a 20-minute audio recording of text from a natural history textbook. Primary outcomes are pain intensity and pain tolerance. Pain-related stress as measured by salivary cortisol level and heart rate variability are secondary outcomes.Ethics and disseminationThis study was approved by ISPA—University Institute’s internal Ethics Committee for Research on 3rd December 2018 (reference I/010/12/2018). Findings will be published in peer-reviewed indexed journals and presented at conferences.Trial registration numberClinicalTrials.gov registry (NCT04491630). Stage: pre-results. |
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