Clinical trial · Interventional
Preoperative Mindfulness In Musculoskeletal Tumor
Preoperative Mindfulness in Musculoskeletal Tumor Patients
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Why stopped (as posted): lack of funding
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Psychosocial distress is common in patients with an oncologic diagnosis, with anxiety being present in almost 20-30% of the patients.\[1, 2, 10\] Mindfulness exercises have shown to reduce this distress.\[4, 5\] Recently, the implementation of a 60-second mindfulness-based intervention has shown to have momentary effects on pain, anxiety, depression and anger in orthopaedic upper extremity patients.\[9\] However, its lasting effect after the single intervention was not evaluated. Nonetheless, because the intervention is not time consuming and is easy to implement it may benefit orthopaedic oncology patients in their pre-operative coping. The implementation of a 60-second mindfulness-based intervention has shown to have momentary effects on pain, anxiety, depression and anger in orthopaedic upper extremity participants. In this research study, the investigators are studying a 60-second interactive personalized acceptance-based mindfulness exercise
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Malignancy | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brief educational pamphlet | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Personalized acceptance-based mindfulness exercise | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Personalized acceptance-based mindfulness exercise
- description
- The purpose of this study is to identify whether a brief 60-second acceptance based mindfulness intervention at specific time points will reduce state trait anxiety, Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale score, pain intensity, distress, anxiety, depression and anger
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Personalized acceptance-based mindfulness exercise
- type
- PLACEBO_COMPARATOR
- label
- Brief educational pamphlet
- description
- The control condition will be educational information on pain and stress that patients will read over within 60 second at specific timepoints.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Brief educational pamphlet
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
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Inclusion Criteria:
* All adult (\>18 years) patients attending the Orthopaedic Oncology Department outpatient clinic (Dr. Santiago Lozano-Calderon, Dr. Kevin Raskin, Dr. J. Schwab) at the MGH with a histologically confirmed musculoskeletal malignancy undergoing curative surgery will be enrolled at their last preoperative visit.
* Patients with a musculoskeletal malignancy undergoing curative surgical treatment
* Histologic confirmation of malignancy prior to curative surgery
* Primary surgery of musculoskeletal malignancy at the Massachusetts General Hospital
* Able to give informed consent
* English fluency and literacy
\--- English fluency is needed because the intervention (a 60-seconds video) is in English and there is no alternate version available.
* Age ≥18 years
Exclusion criteria:
* Significant axis I or II psychopathology that would interfere with participation in the study
* Pregnant patients
* Metastasis at presentationReferences
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