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Registration number
NCT04602312
Ethics application status
Date submitted
19/10/2020
Date registered
26/10/2020
Date last updated
11/01/2022

Titles & IDs
Public title
How Does Mindfulness Meditation Buffer the Negative Effects of Pain and Suffering in the COVID-19 World? (Healthy Sample)
Scientific title
Online RCT Comparing the Effects of Mindfulness, Sham Mindfulness and Book Listening Control on Coronavirus-related Catastrophizing in Adults
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
2019000347-S4C
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Catastrophizing Coronavirus (COVID-19) 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Infection 0 0 0 0
Other infectious diseases
Respiratory 0 0 0 0
Other respiratory disorders / diseases

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Other interventions - Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)

Experimental: Mindfulness meditation - "focussed attention" mindfulness meditation technique taught as means to reduce coronavirus-related catastrophizing.

Sham Comparator: Specific sham mindfulness meditation - a training session designed to specifically match the real mindfulness training while lacking the proposed active elements of mindfulness training. Delivered as a means to elicit expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing.

Sham Comparator: General sham mindfulness meditation - a training session designed to generally match focussed-attention mindfulness meditation while maintaining greater distance from proposed mindfulness mechanisms. Delivered as a means to elicit expectancy-mediated (but not mindfulness-mediated) reductions in coronavirus-related catastrophizing.

No Intervention: Book listening control - this group completes no meditation training. They listen to a spoken excerpt from the audiobook "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne"


Other interventions: Meditation (1 x 20-minute guided audio training)
Participants will complete a single session of 20-minutes online guided audio-delivered training session of one of the four conditions.
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Other interventions
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Coronavirus-related catastrophizing
Timepoint [1] 0 0
40 minutes

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
- At least 18 years of age

- Able to read and understand English
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
Yes
Key exclusion criteria
- Recurrent pain (two or more days in the last month)

- Chronic pain (pain most days in the last three months)

- Incomplete or invalid data (response time < 32 minutes, failing attention checks)

- Completing the 20-minute training module in < 18 minutes or > 90 minutes

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s
The people administering the treatment/s
The people assessing the outcomes
The people analysing the results/data
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Not Applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
28/10/2020
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
26/09/2021
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
744
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
QLD
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
Health and Behavioural Sciences - Brisbane
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
4072 - Brisbane

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
The University of Queensland
Address
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Other collaborator category [1] 0 0
Other
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University of Sydney
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Other collaborator category [2] 0 0
Other
Name [2] 0 0
University of California, San Diego
Address [2] 0 0
Country [2] 0 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Both mindfulness meditation and expectancy effects are known to reduce anxiety, stress and
catastrophizing, but it is unknown whether and how expectancy effects contribute to the
overall effect of mindfulness meditation on these outcomes, especially during significant
global events such as the coronavirus pandemic. This study includes four interrelated aims
that will probe these effects and interactions.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04602312
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Melissa Day, PhD
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The University of Queensland
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Phone 0 0
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Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
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Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04602312