Chronic Pain Clinical Trial
Official title:
Virtual Mindfulness-based Therapy for the Management of Endometriosis Chronic Pelvic Pain: a Novel Delivery Platform to Increase Access to Care.
Endometriosis is a gynecologic condition that can cause severe pelvic pain and significantly impair quality of life. Endometriosis symptoms cannot always be controlled by medical therapy or surgery alone, indicating a need for the development of other adjunct treatments. Mindfulness is a non-medical treatment modality that has been used in the management of chronic pelvic pain.1-3 There is preliminary data to suggest that in-person mindfulness-based workshops can also improve endometriosis-related pain, but further research is needed.4-8 There are significant barriers to utilizing in-person mindfulness resources, the largest being cost and local availability of the workshop. The objective of this pilot project is to assess the effectiveness of virtual mindfulness-based workshops to improve quality of life and pain in patients with endometriosis. The information from the workshops will then be used to create free online resources for patients to learn mindfulness-based approaches to manage endometriosis-related pelvic pain to reduce the financial and geographical barriers to access. Better access to mindfulness-based endometriosis management will enhance the treatment options for people suffering from this condition.
The objective of this pilot project is to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of virtual mindfulness-based workshops to improve quality of life and pain in patients with endometriosis. We hypothesize that virtual mindfulness-based stress reduction workshops will improve overall quality of life and decrease pain in patients with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. We also hypothesize that rates of narcotic pain medication use will decrease. We propose that the virtual platform will reduce some barriers to access mindfulness-based therapy. A registered social worker with knowledge of gynecology clinic practice will create and run the virtual mindfulness workshops based on a standard mindfulness-based stress reduction curriculum. She will receive additional training in teaching mindfulness prior to the start of the study. The workshops will run weekly for eight-weeks over the Zoom platform. The sessions will last 2.5 hours and be held in the evening to ensure those with daytime commitments can participate. For this pilot project a before and after study design will be employed. Participants will complete questionnaires before and after participation in the eight-week mindfulness workshop. Follow up questionnaires will be completed six and twelve months after completion of the workshop. The primary outcome for this study is an improvement in quality-of-life measures. Secondary outcomes are decrease in pain intensity, reduction in psychological stress, improvement in sexual function, reduction in quantity of pain modifiers used and reduction in opiate pain medication use. These main outcomes will be measured using a previously validated tool, The Endometriosis Health Profile Questionnaire (EHP-30).29 Additional tools to assess baseline demographics, barriers to accessing mindfulness and pain medication use have been created for this study. This project has been submitted to the St. Michael's Hospital research ethics board for approval. Upon completion of the curriculum participants will be invited to a focus group to provide qualitative feedback on their experiences with mindfulness-based stress reduction, personal barriers to accessing this treatment, how it contributed to their overall treatment plan and types of activities they found mindfulness most useful for. This data will be coded by two members of the research team to look for themes and potential areas for improvements or change before proceeding with future workshops. It will also be used to inform future knowledge translation projects. An initial 15 participants will be recruited to the study from the gynaecology clinics at St. Michael's hospital. This is a maximum group size suggested for an effective mindfulness workshop. The goal of this small group is to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy for endometriosis-related pelvic pain delivered in a virtual platform prior to completing a larger study. ;
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