Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being
CompletedNot applicableNCT00663585
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Participants completing training in intensive meditation and continuing frequent practice for one year would experience reduced frequency, duration and severity of headaches along with improved awareness of the triggers of their symptoms, improved quality of life and mental health, improved heart rate variability, and reduced inflammation.
Study details
- Official title
- Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being
- Conditions
- Chronic Daily Headache
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Vipassana Meditation
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Start date
- 2008-04
- Primary completion
- 2014-02
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic Daily Headache, defined as a headache at least 15 days of the month, of which at least 8 are migraines. Exclusion Criteria:1. * Severe depression, anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis or dementia that may interfere with ability to participate in a 10 day course * Active alcoholism on screening or use of illicit drugs within the last 3 months * Already completed a 10 day course * Actively involved in another form of meditation over the past 6 months * Women who are pregnant, planning pregnancy during trial period, or lactating.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00663585