Compassion Training and Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01776645
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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)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether compassion training will improve the physical and psychological well-being of patients with chronic pain. The investigators also want to determine whether any benefit of compassion training in the patients "spreads" to significant others with whom the patient has a close relationship.
Study details
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Compassion Cultivation Training Course
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
- Start date
- 2013-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-05
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age 18+ and chronic pain for \>6months 2. Pain over the last month 3. Ability to read, write, and converse in English 4. If being treated for pain condition, then stable treatment regimen. For significant others: 1)18 years of age or older 2)Ability to read, write, and converse in English Exclusion Criteria: For patients and significant others: 1)Current or history of a psychological disorder that would interfere with study procedures, at the discretion of the researcher. For patients only: 1. prior compassion meditation experience 2. on going legal action or disability claim 3. currently pregnant or planning to become pregnant
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01776645