Behaviors and Mental Disorders

All Conditions

Symptoms and General Pathology

Anxiety Disorders

Fatigue

Depression

Nausea

Pain

Depressive Disorder

Behavioral Symptoms

Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded body scan practice.

Body Scan

Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindful breathing practice.

Mindful Breathing

Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindfulness of discomfort practice.

Mindfulness of Discomfort

Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded mindful savoring practice.

Mindful Savoring

Patients will listen to a 5-minute, audio-recorded description of integrative health.

Integrative Health Recording

Adam Hanley

Adam W Hanley

This will be a single-site, five-arm, parallel group randomized control trial involving patients seeking integrative healthcare. Four different styles of 5-minute, audio-recoded mindfulness practices delivered in the clinic waiting room will be compared with a 5-minute audio-recording about integrative healthcare.

A secondary sub-analysis will investigate the most effective mindfulness practice style for patients presenting at the clinic with elevated anxiety, depression, or pain.

Mindful Waiting Room

Idle Waiting or Meditating: Does a Brief, Mindfulness Intervention in the Clinic Waiting Room Improve Patient Outcomes?

75% of patients that begin an audio recording will listen to the full, 5-minute recording

Single item assessing pain ("Right now, I feel physical pain") scored on an 11-point (0=Not at all, 10=Very much) numeric rating scale. Higher scores indicate greater pain.

Single item assessing anxiety ("Right now, I feel nervous, anxious or on edge") scored on an 11-point (0=Not at all, 10=Very much) numeric rating scale. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety.

Single item assessing depression ("Right now, I feel down, depressed, of uninterested in life") scored on an 11-point (0=Not at all, 10=Very much) numeric rating scale. Higher scores indicate greater depression.

University of Utah

Assistant Professor

Respiratory Tract (Lung and Bronchial) Diseases

Respiratory Aspiration

Respiration Disorders

Respiratory Tract Diseases

Patients will receive standard care plus daily sessions of 30-minute mindful breathing for four consecutive days

Patients will only receive standard care.

30 minutes of mindful breathing session for 4 consecutive days, guided by investigators in addition to standard care.

Mindful breathing

Standard care such as pain control, oxygen supplement.

Standard care (control)

Diana Leh Ching Ng, MD

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the efficacy of multisession mindful breathing in reducing symptoms among patients with advanced cancer. Adult patients with advanced cancer will be assessed using Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) scoring system. Patients who scored ≥4 in at least two or more components in ESAS will be recruited and randomly assigned to either 4 daily-session of 30-minute mindful breathing and standard care or standard care alone.

Patients with advanced cancer admitted to the medical and surgical wards of UMMC were consecutively approached to screen for eligibility. The 30-minute mindful breathing of the intervention group was guided by similar investigators for four consecutive days. These investigators were medical doctors who had been trained by the primary investigators - a palliative care physician and a certified mindfulness trainer. Each session used different scripts and was conducted in the languages that were preferred by the patients (such as Malay, English, or Mandarin). Briefly, patients were primed with knowledge of the gist of each script before being instructed to relax their bodies, close their eyes, pay attention to their breathing, and follow the guidance given. If they noticed any distractions, they were told to redirect their attention back to their breathing. Patients in the control group only received standard care and were assessed at the same time of the day by similar investigators for four consecutive days. Patients were allowed to continue their usual activities during each session.

The Efficacy of Multisession Mindful Breathing in Symptom Reduction Among Patients With Advanced Cancers

The Efficacy of Multisession Mindful Breathing in Symptom Reduction Among Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Assessment of efficacy of multisession 30 minutes mindful breathing on the total score of ESAS

Assessment of efficacy of the multisession 30 minutes mindful breathing on the individual score of the 10 symptoms in ESAS.

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization
Mindful Waiting Room	NCT05433636	Anxiety State Depressive Stat... Pain Nausea Fatigue Cancer	Body Scan Mindful Breathi... Mindfulness of ... Mindful Savorin... Integrative Hea...	18 Years -	University of Utah
Mindful Waiting Room	NCT05433636	Anxiety State Depressive Stat... Pain Nausea Fatigue Cancer	Body Scan Mindful Breathi... Mindfulness of ... Mindful Savorin... Integrative Hea...	18 Years -	University of Utah
The Efficacy of Multisession Mindful Breathing in Symptom Reduction Among Patients With Advanced Cancers	NCT05910541	Advanced Cancer	Mindful breathi... Standard care (...	18 Years -	University Malaysia Sarawak

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