Mindful Waiting Room

Description

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.

Conditions

Anxiety State, Depressive State, Pain, Nausea, Fatigue, Cancer

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

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.

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

Mindful Waiting Room

Condition
Anxiety State
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Salt Lake City

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Seeking treatment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute's Wellness Center
  • * Adults 18+
  • * Facility with the English language that is adequate to complete study procedures
  • * Cognitive impairment preventing completion of study procedures
  • * An unstable illness judged by medical staff to interfere with study treatment

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Utah,

Study Record Dates

2024-12-01