Actively Recruiting

Phase Not Applicable
Age: 18Years +
FEMALE
NCT04049214

Perioperative Mindfulness Proposal

Led by Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Updated on 2024-10-15

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Participants Needed

1

Research Sites

313 weeks

Total Duration

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AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

The purpose of this study is to determine if a regular meditation and breath work practice started before surgery and continued through post-surgical recovery can improve anxiety and pain related to breast cancer and its treatment.

CONDITIONS

Official Title

Perioperative Mindfulness Proposal

Who Can Participate

Age: 18Years +
FEMALE

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Female, 18 years of age or older
  • Able to speak and read English
  • Newly diagnosed with primary breast cancer
  • Planning to receive primary surgical treatment for breast cancer
  • Undergoing lumpectomy with or without autologous reconstruction, with or without contralateral surgery for symmetry, with or without intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT), or simple mastectomy without reconstruction
  • Diagnosed with breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • Recurrent breast cancer
  • Current or history of major psychiatric diagnosis
  • Receiving neo-adjuvant chemotherapy
  • Undergoing modified radical mastectomy or reconstruction
  • Regular meditation practice more than twice weekly in the past 12 months
  • Unwilling or unable to complete study materials or comply with study visits
  • No access to email or a mobile phone
  • Surgery planned outside of Hoag
  • Narcotic dependence defined as regular weekly narcotic use before cancer diagnosis
  • Re-excision after lumpectomy (excluded from final analysis and study)

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 1 location

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Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

Newport Beach, California, United States, 92663

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Research Team

M

Melinda Epstein, PhD

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How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

NONE

Allocation

NA

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Purpose

TREATMENT

Number of Arms

1

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