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MINDFUL-PC: Integrating Mindfulness Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home

A study testing Mindfulness Training for Primary Care and Mindfulness Intro. +resources +waitlist in people with Depression and Anxiety, run by Cambridge Health Alliance at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Specific aims for this pilot study are: (Behavioral health outcomes aim): Among primary care patients, compare the effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention (Mindfulness Training for Primary Care[MTPC]) vs. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Depression, Anxiety, Stress Related Disorder
What is being tested?
Mindfulness Training for Primary Care and Mindfulness Intro. +resources +waitlist
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
87 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Oct 2015to 30 Aug 2018
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Current CHA patient with an enrolled CHA primary care doctor.
  • CHA patients 18 years of age and older.
  • Able to tolerate and participate in interviews and engage in all procedures.
  • Able to give written consent in English OR willing and able to provide consent and complete assessments through a professional language translator when necessary.
  • Diagnosis eligible to be covered by insurance for group visits (e.g., anxiety disorder, depression, or adjustment disorder related to chronic illness, pain, etc.).

Who cannot join

  • Any cognitive impairment that precludes informed consent.
  • Patients who, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator, pose an imminent risk of suicide or danger to self or others.
  • Likelihood of potential incarceration such as a conviction or pending charges that may potentially result in imprisonment.
  • Previous enrollment or randomization of treatment in the present study within the 12 months.
  • Behaviors that may cause disruption to a mindfulness group.
  • Patients with symptoms of psychosis, thought disorder, and/or severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar disorder, or a current severe episode of major depressive disorder.
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  • Lack of insurance coverage for group psychotherapy may preclude participation in groups.
  • Patients in their third trimester of pregnancy who foresee conflicts that preclude their commitment to completing all activities.
  • Patients with highly unstable medical problems that put them at a high risk of hospitalization.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Mindfulness and Compassion

    Somerville, Massachusetts, 02143

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About this study

Official title: MINDFUL-PC: Integrating Mindfulness Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home - A Pilot Study

Specific aims for this pilot study are:

(Behavioral health outcomes aim): Among primary care patients, compare the effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention (Mindfulness Training for Primary Care[MTPC]) vs. a 60-minute introduction to mindfulness plus referral to community resources on measures related to anxiety, depression, and stress, and self-management of chronic illness.

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(Medical Regimen Adherence Aim): Among primary care patients, compare the effectiveness of MTPC vs. 60-minute introduction to mindfulness on the initiation and maintenance of an action plan.

(Patient-Provider Relationship Aim): To examine the effects of level of primary care provider mindfulness training on successful referral to program, patient-provider relationship measures, and on patient action plan initiation and maintenance.

Read the detailed description

This project aims evaluate the integration of mindfulness training into the heart of the standard healthcare delivery system.

The investigators and collaborators have developed an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention for primary care called Mindfulness Training for Primary Care (MTPC). MTPC combines common Mindfulness-Based Intervention skills with additional attention to patient/provider relationships, cultural and socio-economic diversity, coping with chronic illness, reducing unnecessary medical care, and encouraging self-management skills acquisition.

This project addresses important gaps in the current mindfulness research and delivery system by evaluating the integration of the novel MTPC model into a system of urban, community, multi-cultural, safety-net Patient-Centered Medical Homes.

In this pilot randomized controlled trial, the investigators compare the effectiveness of 8-week MTPC versus a 60-minute introduction to mindfulness plus referral to community mindfulness resources for primary care patients on behavioral health outcomes of anxiety, depression, stress, and self-management of chronic illness. The investigators are also testing the effect of MTPC on rates of initiation and maintenance of health action plans that patients collaborate on with their primary care provider during study Week 6 . This study also enrolls primary care providers who have participated in various levels of mindfulness training, i.e., 16-hour and 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction and 10-month mindful communication vs. no training.

Outcome assessments are conducted at baseline and study week 8. An action-planning visit with PCPs occurs at week 6 with follow-up during week 8 (initiation) and interview at study week 24 (maintenance).

Being tested
Mindfulness Training for Primary Care, Mindfulness Intro. +resources +waitlist
Keywords
Mindfulness, primary care, self-control, self-regulation, adherence
Medical subject headings
Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Adjustment Disorders, Self-Control

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Mindfulness Training for Primary CareBehavioural

    • MPTC is a primary care adaptation that includes core common Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) elements. MTPC is a referral-based, insurance-reimbursable 8-week group psychotherapy delivered primarily by Patient-Centered Medical Home-integrated behavioral clinicians. MTPC groups are 2 hours long for 8 weeks, with a 7-hour day of silent group practice on a weekend. MTPC also emphasizes psychoeducational skills for self-regulation including a collaborative primary care provider (PCP) action-planning appointment during week 6.
  • Mindfulness Intro. +resources +waitlistBehavioural

    Also called 6-month waitlist

    Control arm: Participants receive a 60-minute introduction to mindfulness group plus referral to a list of community mindfulness resources such as private-pay community mindfulness classes, mobile mindfulness applications, books, and online recordings. These participants are added to a 6-month waitlist for a Cambridge Health Alliance mindfulness-based intervention group. All participants are scheduled to meet with their primary care provider during week 6 for a collaborative action planning visit.

Study groups in NCT02972203
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Mindfulness Training for Primary CareExperimental• Mindfulness Training for Primary Care (MPTC) is a primary care adaptation that includes core common Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) elements. MTPC is a referral-based, insurance-reimbursable 8-week group psychotherapy delivered primarily by Patient-Centered Medical Home-integrated behavioral clinicians. MTPC groups are 2 hours long for 8 weeks, with a 7-hour day of silent group practice on a weekend. MTPC also emphasizes psychoeducational skills for self-regulation including a collaborative primary care provider (PCP) action-planning appointment during week 6.
Receives: Behavioral: Mindfulness Training for Primary Care
Mindfulness Intro. +resources +waitlistActive comparatorControl arm: Participants receive a 60-minute introduction to mindfulness group plus referral to a list of community mindfulness resources such as private-pay community mindfulness classes, mobile mindfulness applications, books, and online recordings. These participants are added to a 6-month waitlist for a Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) mindfulness-based intervention group. All participants are scheduled to meet with their primary care provider during week 6 for a collaborative action planning visit.
Receives: Behavioral: Mindfulness Intro. +resources +waitlist

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change in Perceived Stress Scale

    The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (10 items) measures the degree to which situations in life are stressful. Items are designed to evaluate how overloaded, unpredictable, and uncontrollable one finds one's life. Each item is scored on a 5 point Likert scale from 0 (Never) to 4 (Very often).

    Measured: Week 8

  2. Change in Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System - Anxiety Short Form (PROMIS-ASF)

    The Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System - Anxiety Short Form 8a (PROMIS-ASF) is an 8-item scale used to assess patient-reported health status for anxiety. PROMIS instruments are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and used to reliably and validly measure patient-reported outcomes for clinical research and practice. Participants are asked to rate their experience of the item in the past seven days on a 5-point scale from 1 (Never) to 5 (Always). Ratings from baseline will be compared to ratings from 8 Weeks post-baseline.

    Measured: Week 8

  3. Change in Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System - Depression Short Form (PROMIS-DSF)

    The Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System - Depression Short Form 8a (PROMIS-DSF) is an 8-item scale used to assess patient-reported health status for depression. PROMIS instruments are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and used to reliably and validly measure patient-reported outcomes for clinical research and practice. Participants are asked to rate their experience of the item in the past seven days on a 5-point scale from 1 (Never) to 5 (Always). Ratings from baseline will be compared to ratings from 8 Weeks post-baseline.

    Measured: Week 8

  4. Change in Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease (SECD-6)

    The Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease Scale (SECD-6) is a 6-item scale that is used to evaluate a participant's ability to self-manage care for a chronic disease. SECD-6 asks participants to rate their confidence in their own ability to do certain activities, on a scale from 1 (not at all confident) to 10 (totally confident).

    Measured: Week 8

  5. Action Plan Initiation Survey (APIS-5)

    Patient self-reported Action Plan Initiation Survey (APIS-5) will be administered at post-treatment (PT Study Week 8). This 5-item questionnaire is adapted from a measure used by Guck et al. In this questionnaire, patients are asked to list their action plan goals generated with their PCP, and determine whether they met or did not meet each goal. For each unmet goal, patients are asked to rate the cause of not meeting the goal on an attributional rating scale using a 7-point format.

    Measured: Week 8

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)

    The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is a 39-item scale that examines five factors that represent aspects of the current empirical conception of mindfulness. These five facets include: "observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, and non-reactivity to inner experience." Participants rate their degree of agreement with each of the items on a Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (Never or very rarely true) to 5 (Very often or always true), with higher scores indicating higher experience of mindfulness.

    Measured: Week 8

  2. Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form (SCS-SF)

    The short-form Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF) is an abbreviated 12-item form of the original 26-item Self-Compassion Scale. The scale is scored on a 5 point Likert scale (1 = Almost never; 5 = Almost always), and negative subscale items are reverse scored.

    Measured: Week 8

  3. Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)

    The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation (DERS) Scale is a 36-item self-report scale designed to assess emotional dysregulation.

    Measured: Week 8

  4. Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)

    The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) is a 32-item self-report scale designed to assess multiple aspects of interoception and interoceptive awareness.

    Measured: Week 8

  5. Perceived Control Questionnaire (PCQ)

    The Perceived Control Questionnaire (PCQ) is adapted from a 5-item perceived control measure from Jerant et al. and a previously validated survey from Armitage et al. This 5-item scale asks participants to rate their sense of control over chronic illness self-management on a 7-point scale from 1 (None) to 7 (Total).

    Measured: Week 8

  6. Patient Activation Measure (PAM)

    The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) is a 13-item scale that is designed to evaluate a participant's ability to be an effective and informed manager of his or her own health and health care. Participants are asked to rate their agreement with each statement on a 0-100 metric where 0 = the lowest possible activation and 100 = the highest possible activation as measured by this set of items.

    Measured: Week 8

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted23 Nov 2016 (estimated)
  2. Study startOct 2015
  3. Primary completion30 Aug 2018
  4. Study completion30 Aug 2018

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
87 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02972203
Sponsor's protocol ID
IRB number: CHA-IRB-1002/08/14
Acronym
MINDFUL-PC
Status last verified
Dec 2018
First submitted
4 Nov 2016
Last updated
12 Dec 2018
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Publications

  • Mccubbin T, Dimidjian S, Kempe K, Glassey MS, Ross C, Beck A. Mindfulness-based stress reduction in an integrated care delivery system: one-year impacts on patient-centered outcomes and health care utilization. Perm J. 2014 Fall;18(4):4-9. doi: 10.7812/TPP/14-014.

    PubMed 25662520
  • Merkes M. Mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with chronic diseases. Aust J Prim Health. 2010;16(3):200-10. doi: 10.1071/PY09063.

    PubMed 20815988
  • Goyal M, Singh S, Sibinga EM, Gould NF, Rowland-Seymour A, Sharma R, Berger Z, Sleicher D, Maron DD, Shihab HM, Ranasinghe PD, Linn S, Saha S, Bass EB, Haythornthwaite JA. Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Mar;174(3):357-68. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13018.

    PubMed 24395196
  • Hofmann SG, Sawyer AT, Witt AA, Oh D. The effect of mindfulness-based therapy on anxiety and depression: A meta-analytic review. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2010 Apr;78(2):169-83. doi: 10.1037/a0018555.

    PubMed 20350028
  • Chiesa A, Serretti A. Mindfulness based cognitive therapy for psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Res. 2011 May 30;187(3):441-53. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.08.011. Epub 2010 Sep 16.

    PubMed 20846726
  • Holzel BK, Lazar SW, Gard T, Schuman-Olivier Z, Vago DR, Ott U. How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2011 Nov;6(6):537-59. doi: 10.1177/1745691611419671.

    PubMed 26168376
  • Lorig KR, Sobel DS, Ritter PL, Laurent D, Hobbs M. Effect of a self-management program on patients with chronic disease. Eff Clin Pract. 2001 Nov-Dec;4(6):256-62.

    PubMed 11769298
  • Schuman-Olivier Z, Hoeppner BB, Evins AE, Brewer JA. Finding the right match: mindfulness training may potentiate the therapeutic effect of nonjudgment of inner experience on smoking cessation. Subst Use Misuse. 2014 Apr;49(5):586-94. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2014.850254.

    PubMed 24611853
  • Alegria M, Sribney W, Perez D, Laderman M, Keefe K. The role of patient activation on patient-provider communication and quality of care for US and foreign born Latino patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2009 Nov;24 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):534-41. doi: 10.1007/s11606-009-1074-x.

    PubMed 19842003
  • Neff KD, Germer CK. A pilot study and randomized controlled trial of the mindful self-compassion program. J Clin Psychol. 2013 Jan;69(1):28-44. doi: 10.1002/jclp.21923. Epub 2012 Oct 15.

    PubMed 23070875
  • Wiegner L, Hange D, Bjorkelund C, Ahlborg G Jr. Prevalence of perceived stress and associations to symptoms of exhaustion, depression and anxiety in a working age population seeking primary care--an observational study. BMC Fam Pract. 2015 Mar 19;16:38. doi: 10.1186/s12875-015-0252-7.

    PubMed 25880219
  • Benzo RP. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing: two candidate methods for promoting self-management. Chron Respir Dis. 2013 Aug;10(3):175-82. doi: 10.1177/1479972313497372.

    PubMed 23897933

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Mindfulness Training for Primary Care and Mindfulness Intro. +resources +waitlist in people with Depression and Anxiety, run by Cambridge Health Alliance at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 9 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 12 Dec 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Change in Perceived Stress Scale (time frame: Week 8). The study lists 5 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02972203, which also lists 12 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 12 Dec 2018.

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