Group-based Mindfulness for Chronic Pain in the Primary Care Setting
CompletedNot applicableNCT04129450
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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 pragmatic clinical trial (PCT) research is to determine whether a group-visit approach modeled on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction can improve function for persons with chronic low back pain. This will be done by an embedded PCT within the evidence-based "OPTIMUM" (Optimizing Pain Treatment In Medical settings Using Mindfulness) program.
Study details
- Official title
- Group-based Mindfulness for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain in the Primary Care Setting
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Group medical visits with mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Other: Usual PCP care
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
- Collaborators
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Start date
- 2021-05-06
- Primary completion
- 2024-11-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 18 * Chronic low back pain, which is pain that persists for at least 3-months and has resulted in pain on at least half the days in the past 6 months * A score ≥ 3 on the Pain, Enjoyment of Life and General Activity (PEG) * Willing and able to provide online or telephone informed consent * Speak English as the intervention manual is currently written in English Exclusion Criteria: * Do not meet the above inclusion criteria * Red flags- recent (past month) worsening of pain, unexplained fever, unexplained weight loss * Pregnancy * Metastatic cancer * First-degree relatives (parents, siblings, child) of someone who has participated or is participating in the OPTIMUM study * Members of the same household * Not a patient at a participating clinic or persons not planning to continue as a patient at a participating clinic for 12 or more months
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04129450